ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL FOUNDATIONS AND PROCEDURAL LIMITS OF JUDICIAL CONTROL IN PRE-TRIAL CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
Keywords:
investigating judge, judicial control, administration of justice, pre-trial proceedings, procedural coercion, human rights, advance securing of testimony, judicial independence, proportionality, procedural guaranteeAbstract
The article analyzes the organizational and legal foundations, procedural nature, and functional limits of judicial control exercised by the investigating judge at the pre-trial stage of criminal proceedings. The introduction of the institution of the investigating judge is assessed from the standpoint of strengthening the institutional guarantees for the protection of an individual's rights, freedoms, and legitimate interests in criminal proceedings. It is substantiated that neither equating judicial control with the administration of justice, nor interpreting them as entirely separate activities, is theoretically or practically adequate. From this perspective, the powers of the investigating judge, the content of judicial control, and the procedural criteria necessary to prevent judicial control from being reduced to a mere "sanction-granting" mechanism are examined. In particular, using the example of the institution of advance securing of testimony of a witness and victim (civil claimant), the complex boundary between judicial control and the court's direct procedural activity is analyzed. Scientific and practical proposals are put forward regarding the independence and impartiality of the investigating judge, his exclusion from subsequent examination of the criminal case on the merits, as well as the organizational and legal conditions for the further improvement of this institution.
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