Dudych A. An Expert as a Participant of the Criminal Proceedings.

Dissertation is aimed to do a thorough research of theoretical, methodological, and practical aspects of the participation of an expert in the criminal proceedings according to the CPC of Ukraine, 2012 on the basis of decisions of the European Court of Human Rights and of the national courts. The dissertation studies the notion of an expert and its place in the system of participants of forensic and expert activity, the requirements to an expert as a participant of the criminal proceedings. Besides, international legal and foreign experience of participation of an expert in the criminal proceedings is analyzed. On the basis of the rules of current legislation and scientific works of scholars in the field of the criminal justice the procedural status of an expert as a participant in the criminal proceedings has been studied, its contents and structural elements (rights, duties, responsibilities, guarantees of his rights) have been described, the forms of participation of an expert in the criminal proceedings have been worked out. The study formulates proposals aimed at improving the Criminal Procedural Legislation in the part which establishes the elements of the procedural status of an expert, forms of an expert’s participation in the criminal proceedings and regulates the mechanism for their implementation in the criminal proceedings.