Economic and Legal Aspects of Reviewing the Conclusion and Questioning the Expert in Court

Abstract

Based on the results of the analysis of the scientific literature, it is concluded that insufficient attention is paid to the assessment of the expert economist's conclusion. In this regard, the problem area of the study is considered taking into account the practice of conducting forensic economic examinations by experts of the ECC of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, non-state experts of St. Petersburg, as well as the practice of reviewing the conclusions of forensic experts from other regions of Russia. The purpose of the work is to study and develop methodological and practical recommendations for improving the assessment of expert opinions that reflect the results of the performed forensic economic examinations, for the presence of insufficient clarity or completeness, as well as in cases of doubts about the validity of the expert's conclusion or the presence of contradictions in the expert's conclusions. The main objectives of the study: review of the review of the expert opinion of the forensic expert; questions to the expert who performed the expert study for the court session. The solution of the research tasks that determine the achievement of the goal of this scientific work meets the requirements of consistency and contains an in-depth presentation of recommendations for evaluating the conclusions of expert economists, taking into account existing practice and positive experience in this area. The methodological basis of the research is based on general scientific methods of synthesis, analysis, induction, deduction, and the dialectical method of cognition of socio-economic phenomena. In the process of writing the work, private scientific methods were used: methods of comparative and formal-logical analysis. The result of the study-specific criteria for evaluating the expert-economist's conclusion within the framework of its review are formulated, directly related to the forensic economic expertise, and a list of typical violations identified within the framework of reviewing the expert-economist's conclusions is disclosed.