Lutsyk V. Returning of the criminal case to the prosecutor from preliminary court hearing.

In the research theoretical and practical issues of the realization of criminal-procedural institution of returning of the criminal case to the prosecutor have been investigated. The nature of this institution, its development, realization in the legislation of foreign countries have been researched; the problematic issues of the grounds for returning of the criminal case to the prosecutor in the current legislation have been analyzed; the propositions as for increasing of the scope of the grounds have been made; the procedural order of prosecutor and court activity in the course of realization of this institute have been investigated. The correlation of the institute of returning of the criminal case to accessory investigation and to the prosecutor has been covered; the legal nature and forms of realization of this institute in criminal procedure have been researched. The propositions as for the improvement of current criminal-procedural law of Ukraine in the sphere of legal regulation of the institute of returning of the criminal case to the prosecutor have been given.