Presumptions as means of proof in criminal procedure law of states with continental and Anglo-American legal systems

Nazar Bobechko; Volodymyr Fihurskyi

doi:10.34069/AI/2024.74.02.31

Nazar Bobechko Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9304-3170
Volodymyr Fihurskyi Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5329-8985

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.74.02.31

Keywords: criminal procedure law, process of proof, means of criminal procedural proof, legal presumptions, factual presumptions.

Abstract

The aim of this article is to study legal regulation, doctrinal approaches on understanding and using presumptions in criminal procedure proof of the states with continental and Anglo-American legal systems. The methodological basis of this research consists of general scientific and special legal methods, namely dialectical, analysis, generalization, structural and functional, hermeneutic, dogmatic and comparative legal methods. The article analyzes one of the means of criminal procedure proof – presumption. By analyzing the corresponding norms of CPC of Ukraine, legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights, Supreme Court of the USA and the views of fellow researchers, the authors present their vision of issues within the scope of the study. The significance of presumptions as means of proof in criminal proceedings is clarified and their types which are distinguished in the doctrine of criminal procedure of continental and Anglo-American legal systems are characterized.

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Author Biographies

Nazar Bobechko, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.

Dr. Sc. (Law), Professor, Head of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.

Volodymyr Fihurskyi, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.

PhD (Law), Associate Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine.

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