title: The admissibility of testimony in criminal proceedings: Modern approach and development vectors
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metadata.value: Novikov, Sergei A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-03-29T17:30:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-03-29T17:30:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Novikov, Sergei A. 2024. “The admissibility of testimony in criminal proceedings: Modern approach and development vectors”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 1: 21–34. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2024.102 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2024.102
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45197
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metadata.value: In the article the most relevant aspects of the admissibility of the institution of testimony in
  modern Russian criminal proceedings are analyzed. The main part of the study includes four
  sections, the first of which criticizes legal definition of the very concept of the testimony of
  the victim, witness, suspect and accused, as information obtained solely as a result of their
  interrogation. It is proposed to consider the testimony of these participants as information
  obtained as a result of other investigative actions, not only such as confrontation, presentation
  for identification or verification of testimony on the spot, but also those that were not initially
  aimed at obtaining testimony: search, inspection, investigative experiment. The second section examines defects in the source of the interrogated’s awareness that prevent the use
  of information from them in evidence: testimony based on rumors, guesses or an unnamed
  source, violating the secrecy of confession, attorney’s or tax secrecy, reproducing unacceptable
  information or evaluating the falsity of other people’s testimony by gestures or facial expressions.
  The third section indicates violations of the procedure for obtaining testimony, entailing
  their absolute inadmissibility: the use of torture, threats, the absence of participants provided
  for by law (defender, teacher, psychologist), leading questions. At the same time, it is proposed
  to distinguish between insignificant and avoidable violations that do not entail the inadmissibility
  of testimony. The fourth section examines the obstacles to the use in the conduct of the
  trial of those testimonies that were obtained earlier without violating the legal procedure. It is
  proposed to waive the ban on disclosing the previous testimony of the accused, obtained without
  the participation of a defender (when his participation was not legally mandatory), if they
  were not confirmed by the accused in court, as well as to soften the rules for the disclosure of
  testimony of non-present persons.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: admissibility of evidence
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: testimony of the accused
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: testimony of a witness
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: investigative actions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: interrogation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: disclosure of testimony
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: inadmissible testimony
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The admissibility of testimony in criminal proceedings: Modern approach and development vectors
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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