Makarova, Z.V. The constitutional principle of lawfulness of the criminal judicial proceedings

Abstract: The object of studies concerns the contents of the constitutional principle of criminal judicial proceedings. The order of criminal judicial proceedings have been and is defined only by the law: by the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings in the pre-Revolution Russia and by the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, which is based upon the Constitution of the Russian Federation in the modern Russia. The necessary prerequisite for the correct application of the norms of criminal procedural law is their correct interpretation, that is why the article concerns the methods of interpretation of criminal procedural law in the theory of law of the pre-Revolution Russia and modern Russia. The article includes comparative legal study of the contents of the principle of lawfulness of criminal proceedings in the Criminal Procedural Codes of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan. The methodological basis for the studies is formed with the dialectic cognition method, as well as special legal methods, methods of historical, comparative, legal logical, and logical structural analysis. For the first time in this article the contents of the principles of lawfulness of the Russian criminal judicial proceedings are studied in relation with the contents of lawfulness according to the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings, the Criminal Procedural Codes of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan. The author substantiates the need to introduce into the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation the independent principles of comprehensive character, fullness and objective character of examination of all of the circumstances of a criminal case, as well as the justice in proceedings and resolution on a criminal case.

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