Review

Since the adoption of the current Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (hereinafter referred to as the CPC of Ukraine), it has already taken sufficient time to make substantive conclusions on issues related to the maintenance human custody.

Existing practice by an investigating judges, parties to criminal proceedings during this time, gives grounds to formulate an urgent issue that needs immediate resolution, since it directly concerns the fundamental right of a person to freedom and personal immunity.

Number of appeals from Ukraine to the European Court of Human Rights (hereinafter – ECHR) concerning violation of the right guaranteed by Art. 3 The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of 1960 (hereinafter referred to as the «European Convention») after 2012 remains significant in order to ignore this issue.

Unfortunately, the effect of the presumption of innocence, the legislative definition of the purpose and grounds for the use of preventive measures, circumstances taken into account when choosing a preventive measure, change or cancellation, the existence of a rule of applying a milder preventive measure, all listed in total – does not ensure compliance with investigating judges of human rights (at the stage of selection of preventive measures) in terms of human rights standards.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the provisions of the current legislation of Ukraine regarding the application, modification, cancellation of the most hard preventive measure in the form of detention and relevant judicial practice to make it necessary to introduce the introduction of a presumption in the national legislation the presumption of the release of a person from custody.

The main results of the research include the justification for the need and suggestion for changing the existing procedure for the assessment by investigating judges of the purpose and grounds for the use of a preventive measure in the form of detention, as well as an assessment of the circumstances specified in Art. 178 of the CPC of Ukraine.

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