The return of an indictment, the step prior to the dismissal of proceedings or an acquittal, plea agreements or guilty pleas, complaints, and motions—these and other issues of criminal procedure were discussed by the chair of the UNAA Committee on Legal Aid, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine Oleksandr Drozdov and a member of the UNAA Committee on Criminal Law and Procedure, attorney, and scientific advisor at Barristers Law Firm Iryna Hlovyuk during the workshop “Preliminary Proceedings: Silicon Valley of Legal Opportunities vs. the Klondike of Judges’ ‘No!’s.”
You can view the workshop via the following links:
In addition to the event, the lawyers have posted a list of instructional materials related to the event’s topic:
- Preliminary Proceedings within the Stages of the Criminal Process in Ukraine (dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Legal Sciences);
- Problematic Issues Arising from the Return of an Indictment to the Prosecutor (article);
- Issues arising from the calculation of pretrial investigation time limits after the court returns the indictment to the prosecutor, and motions to remedy identified deficiencies (article);
- Review of the judicial practice of the Cassation Criminal Court within the Supreme Court;
- Letter from the High Specialized Court of Ukraine for Civil and Criminal Cases dated October 3, 2012 No. 223-1430/0/4-12 “On the Procedure for Conducting Preparatory Court Proceedings in Accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine”;
- Ruling of the Kharkiv Regional Court of Appeal on the reversal of the judgment in criminal proceeding No. 610/1813/13-k;
- Resolution of the Joint Chamber of the Cassation Criminal Court of the Supreme Court in Case No. 639/2837/19;
- Ruling of the Supreme Court in Case No. 314/1905/17;
- Ruling of the Supreme Court No. 5-142ks(15)17;
- Ruling of the Kharkiv Regional Court of Appeals on the reversal of the judgment in Case No. 640/12514/15-k.
Author: Law and Business
Source: Law and Business