Referring a case to the highest division of the Supreme Court in the criminal procedure legislation of Ukraine and European countries
Summary: 1. Introduction – 2. Grounds for referring the criminal proceedings for consideration by the higher-level structural division of the Supreme Court – 3. An exclusive legal problem and necessity for the development of law and the uniformity of law enforcement practice as grounds for the referral. – 4. The fault of the grounds and the procedure for referring the case for consideration by a higher-level structural division of the Supreme Court in the Ukrainian Criminal Procedure Code. – 5. The reasonableness of judgements on the referral of criminal proceeding for consideration by the joint chamber and the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court – 6. Consistency of court practice of the structural divisions of the Supreme Court – 7. Conclusions
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Nazar Bobechko is a Dr. Sc. (Law), Prof. of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Supreme Court. Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the State Bureau of Investigation. Member of the Specialized Academic Council of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. USAID project participant "Analysis of the case law of the Supreme Court" (2019-2020).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9304-3170
Alona Voinarovych is a PhD (Law), Assoc. Prof. of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. Participant in the international project "Sommerschule Europaisches Recht". Scientific interest is the participation of the people in criminal proceedings, problems of modern criminal proceedings, international standards for the protection of participants in criminal proceedings, public trial of criminal proceedings.
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Volodymyr Fihurskyi is a PhD (Law), Assoc. Prof. of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. Participant in international projects "Training on alternative dispute resolution as an approach to ensuring human rights" (TEMPUS IV – TRADIR) and "Sommerschule Europaisches Recht". Research interests: problems of criminal procedure and criminology (in particular, forensic tactics and methods), general and legal psychology.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5329-8985
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Authors would like to express their gratitude to the reviewers for their help and for the English editor.
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- N Bobechko, A Voinarovych, V Fihurskyi ‘Referring a case to the highest division of the Supreme Court in the criminal procedure legislation of Ukraine and European countries’ 2021 1(9) Access to Justice in Eastern Europe 143– 165. DOI: 10.33327/AJEE-18-4.1-a000050
