Maslova M.V. Defence counsel’s speech in pleadings and parties’ replies

Abstract: The paper studies the defence counsel’s status as a subject of proving during pleadings and parties’ replies in the contemporary Russian criminal proceedings. The author analyzes various positions on the term defence counsel’s speech defining, offers her own definition and studies the main features characterizing it. The paper contains the classification of rights, duties and responsibilities of a defence counsel in judicial proceedings during pleadings and parties’ replies. The author applies the formal logical, statistical, historical-legal methods, analysis and interpolation. The paper studies the standard structure of a defence counsel’s speech, and the main stages of its preparation and delivering. The author studies and classifies the rights, duties and responsibilities of a defence counsel during his speech in pleadings and parties’ replies. The author formulates the main problems which a defence counsel faces during pleadings and parties’ replies, and offers the ways to solve them. 

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