The specificity of the special procedure of judicial proceedings consists in a significant reduction of the judicial investigation, during which the actual circumstances of the committed crime are not investigated. The construction of a special procedure for judicial proceedings assumes that the court makes a decision based mainly on the evidentiary activity of the preliminary investigation bodies, but at the same time it checks it. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the subject and the process of proof when considering criminal cases in a special order. The methodological basis of the research is the universal dialectical method of scientific cognition, which made it possible to study the subject of research in connection with other legal phenomena, as well as general scientific methods of cognition (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, analogy, modeling) and private scientific methods of cognition. Conculsions. The center of gravity of judicial evidence in establishing the actual circumstances of the case is shifted from the stage of judicial proceedings to the stage of appointing judicial proceedings. The subject of proof directly at the court session when considering a criminal case in a special order is the voluntary nature of the person’s application for consideration of the case in a special order and the defendant’s awareness of the nature and consequences of the declared petition; the accused’s understanding of the essence of the charge and agreement with it in full; data on the defendant’s identity; circumstances that mitigate and aggravate the punishment. The methods of establishing the circumstances that are included in the subject of proof when considering a criminal case in a special order are not limited by law. Any procedural actions can be carried out to establish them.