Ashirbekova, M.T. Complete appeal according to the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings of 1864 and its reception in the modern criminal procedural legislation

Abstract: The degree of reception of the elements of complete appeal according to the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings of 1864 in the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation became the subject of this article, as well as the correlation of normative regulation of appeal under the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings of 1864 and the legal regulation of appeals in accordance with the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, revealing similar and dissimilar provisions in the regulation of complete appeal, and conditions for its implementation under the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings of 1864 and Chapter 45.1 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation. The author evaluates the meaning of the provision of the Charter of Criminal Judicial Proceedings of 1864 on the right of the party to insist on interrogation of witnesses and specialist, who have arrived into the court of appeals at the initiative of the appellant. The general dialectic method of scientific cognition formed the basis for the use of various general scientific and specific methods of legal studies: historical, comparative legal, formal logical and structural – functional methods. Establishment and substantiation of the possibility for the full appeal in the modern criminal process should be based upon the balance of judicial discretion of the court of appeals and activities of the parties. The author makes a conclusion that the issue of complete and incomplete appeal is important from the standpoint of defining the nature of the appeals proceedings. It is stated that the modern appeal contains elements of judicial supervision and justice – resolution of the criminal court. The proposition is formulated to apply to the appeal the provisions of p. 4 of Art. 271 of the Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation, since they are meant for the court of the first instance.

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