Savytskii O. Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court as a subject of criminal procedural relations

Complex research of theoretical and practical problems of formation and activity of the Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court as the subject of criminal procedural relations was carried out in the dissertation. An analysis of the practical experience of foreign countries in the functioning of a Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court was conducted. The concept of a Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court as a subject of criminal procedural legal relations is formulated. The content of the procedural status of a Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court in criminal proceedings has been determined. The system of guarantees for the activity of a Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court has been revealed. Scientific approaches determining the functions of an investigating judge during a pre-trial investigation are highlighted and the powers of an investigating Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court in criminal proceedings are classified. Proposals to amend the Criminal Code of Ukraine have been developed in order to improve the regulation of the activities of a Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court during criminal proceedings. As a result of studying doctrinal and normative sources, it was found that a Judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine as a subject of criminal procedural relations is an official representative of the judiciary, who is endowed by the state with exclusive powers to perform the functions assigned to it by the criminal procedure legislation of Ukraine. These functions were provided to administrate the system of justice at the court of first and appellate instances in criminal proceedings, concerning criminal offenses referred by procedural law to its jurisdiction, as well as to implement, in cases prescribed by procedural law, judicial control over the observance of the rights, freedoms and interests of persons in such criminal proceedings.