IS THE INSTITUTE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW OF DECISIONS TAKEN UNDER APPOINTMENT OF THE COURT SESSION IN NEED OF FURTHER CHANGES?

Abstract

The article discusses issues concerning the legal regulation of the procedure for appealing against judicial decisions taken by the court under appointment of the court session. The author raises the problem of the necessity and appropriateness of any decision appeal taken in this stage of the process. Iit is proved that since any judicial decision determining the further movement received from the Prosecutor of the criminal case affects the interests of the participants in the proceedings. So the participants should be given the right of appeal to the General order, that is, in accordance with chapters 45.1 and 47.1 of the code of criminal procedure. In the paper general scientific and special legal methods of studies are used: analysis and synthesis, legal modeling, formally-legal. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the author's approach to the study of the problem which has not only theoretical but also practical importance, namely, to rethink the essence of the appeal against the intermediate court decisions. The author challenges the position of many scientists that the appeal of any and all decisions made under appointment of the court session, having primarily organizational and security nature, creates judicial red tape and delays the timing of the proceedings and therefore the criminal trial on the merits, basing his opinion that sometimes the execution of certain judgments of the court leads to much more temporal, organizational, and material costs than their verification by the higher court. In addition the right to appeal procedural actions and decisions, as a principle of criminal proceedings, along with other principles is designed to protect the legitimate rights and interests of any participant in the process. In modern Russian criminal proceedings that is a priority. Therefore, the author proposes to exclude the provision on prohibition to appeal an individual judge's decision rendered under appointment of the court session from the code of criminal procedure and to leavу only the ban to appeal the decision on the venue, date and time of the hearing.