The court in the criminal process: problems functioning and organization

Abstract

The problems of functioning of the court as a participant in criminal procedural activity are analyzed. The court, as an authoritative subject of the criminal process, is endowed with a number of powers aimed at solving the tasks assigned to it, but these powers are fixed regardless of the functions performed by the court. The analysis of judicial practice and statistical data gives grounds to speak about the need for a clearer legislative regulation of the functional areas of the court's activities in the fi eld of criminal proceedings. The legislation does not notice that scientists have been raising the issue of crisis manifestations of criminal proceedings for a long time. It is important to pay attention to the discussion of the problems of the correlation of collegiality and individual consideration of criminal cases, representation of citizens in court, the fact of unlimited use of simplified procedures.