Kovyrshyn V. Conduct of Criminal Proceedings in Respect of an Attorney

The dissertation is the first comprehensive study of the features of criminal proceedings against a lawyer in the science of criminal procedural law. It is established that the criminal procedural form should not be considered exclusively as a set of specific conditions or procedures. The author's vision is substantiated, according to which the criminal procedural form is an integrative legal regime established by law for the implementation of criminal procedural activities, which, through a system of interrelated conditions and guarantees, determines the scope and limits of state intervention in human rights depending on the tasks of the proceedings and the specifics of the legal status of its participants. Such an understanding allows us to highlight the key features of the form as a legal regime, in particular, systemic integrity, functional (status) conditionality, subjective exclusivity, axiological orientation, normative unification and teleology (target orientation). Differentiation of the criminal procedural form in such a context will be an adequate way for the state to respond to the need to take into account either the special needs of the participants in criminal proceedings, or specific tasks that must be performed.