The article develops the concept of «morality» and establishes its content as an object of constitutional and legal protection. The author analyzes some legal provisions related to the protection of public morality. Another issue which is considered in this publication is the views of researchers who studied the content of morality as a matter of legal protection in various legal spaces.
The article reveals the concept and features of writ and simplified proceedings in the civil process. A comparative analysis is carried out in the historical aspect of the development of institutions; in legal regulation; in procedural matters of production; in the prospects and benefits of development. The research focuses on the provisions of the Civil procedure code of the Russian Federation related to the implementation of simplified production and some issues of improving legislation as well as different views of experts on this issue.
The author explores separate aspects of the genesis of testimony. Obtaining reliable testimony from witnesses is the main objecting of this research. The author reflects on the latest developments in science, which expand a range of methods used for studying human psyche and personality as a source of information about the crime event. Based on the analysis of the current methods for obtaining reliable testimony, the author draws a conclusion on the need to develop the theoretical basis for a forensic study of the witness's personality in order to improve the effectiveness of criminal proceedings.
The quality of a defense lawyer’s work depends on the skills, knowledge, professional experience and some other factors, but still the most efficient tool is the range of lawyer’s mandate, and more specifically, the access to collecting the evidence. The article considers the challenges of a lawyer’s work in collecting evidence, specific proposals to improve the process of collecting evidence in a criminal process are made. The area of criminal procedural law governing the power to gather evidence by a lawyer is the most sensitive and vulnerable point for criticism from analysts. The process of evidence gathering in the framework of the criminal process should be ultimately regulated so that to exercise several principles of criminal justice, including the presumption of innocence, ensuring the suspect the right to defense, adversary parties who should not act only in trial, but also at the preliminary investigation stage.
The modern stage of education development is characterized by new approaches to the departmental activities in the leading universities of Russia, changes in the evaluation of the activities’ outcomes, the functions of departmental heads. The purpose of the research was to focus on some certain activity features of the research departments at the University (the study was conducted using the materials of the Criminal Procedure, Criminalistics and Law Informational Science Department of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University): providing direct educational and educational impact on students (bachelors, masters, postgraduates); managing research and extending methodological support; interacting with other departments of leading universities of Russia and the region, as well as cooperating with foreign colleagues from the universities of Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, Germany, England, USA; cooperating with practical departments of the region; managing the Criminalistics Situology research group under the leadership of T. S. Volchetskaya; undergraduate research activity; keeping traditions of the academic department. The article concludes that the modern academic department should be the center of training for researchers, academic and pedagogical staff. It is the head of the department who is the center to everything, a key element in the management system, which forms a cohesive team of professionally trained people able to solve a variety of tasks.