. On correlation of goals and purpose of criminal judicial procedure.

Abstract: New Criminal Procedural Code of the Russian Federation brought a changed perspective to the provisions on the purpose of the criminal judicial procedure, and a different level of goals of this procedure. However, the formulation of a new purpose of the criminal judicial procedure causes much heated discussion among both practicing lawyers and legal scholars. As the authors of this article note, in fact, the new Code altogether lacks mention of goals of criminal judicial procedure as such, which is probably one of the key defects of the Code, which may cause various negative consequences. The defect itself is in incorrect use of terminology, confusion of goals and functions of the criminal judicial procedure…