Development of adversarial principles and expansion of the lawyer’s powers as a means of ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of participants in pre-trial criminal proceedings

Abstract

The article is aimed at identifying the main directions of improving the regulatory framework for ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of participants in pre-trial proceedings. The methodological basis for the solution of this problem is a comparative legal analysis of the legal regulation of pre-trial proceedings in the continental and Anglo-Saxon legal systems with the Russian regulatory framework. In the prognostic context, the formal-logical method, the modeling method, and the system-functional method are actively used. The article presents various positions of specialists in solving the problem, the directions of its solution are named. It is defined as a promising direction for the development of adversarial principles in pre–trial proceedings - further improvement of the institution of petitions and complaints. The content of the article is of practical value for the subsequent scientific search for an effective solution to the issue under consideration.