Conceptual problems of construction of the constitutional and legal model of adversarial proceedings of the criminal process of Ukraine
Authors: Мarkush Mariia 
Published: November 2021

The article is devoted to the conceptual problems of building a competitive model of the criminal process of Ukraine under thecurrent Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine (the CPC of Ukraine).Scientific understanding of the constitutional and legal essence and functionality of the modern model of the criminal process ofUkraine can be essential only when its concept is unquestionably based on the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine andinternational legal standards and is carried out in terms of constitutional principles: rule of law, independence of court, right toprotection. as well as the principles of adversarial and other principles of justice. In the context of reforming the legal system of Ukrainein the European integration process, there is a convergence of the domestic legal system with the EU legal system, so the relevance ofthe study of the conceptual framework of the criminal process of Ukraine on the basis of international human rights law objectivelyincreases.The Association of Ukraine to the EU necessitated the adoption of a number of legal principles, first of all the rule of law andadversarial principles, through international law, and not exclusively through national prism, because their modern understanding isgreatly influenced by such judgemental factors as: 1) codification of international law and its progressive development; 2) compliancewith the international legal obligations of Ukraine as a subject of international law in the field of human rights protection, arising fromboth international treaties and customary international law; 3) the responsibility of Ukraine as a subject of international law for theimplementation of international obligations.

The article analyzes the national experience of legal regulation of adversarial proceedings in criminal proceedings, explores va -rious scientific approaches to this problem and concludes on the actual inequality of the parties in criminal proceedings, as well asdefines the legislative model of the criminal process in Ukraine. The analysis of international legal acts, provisions of the Constitutionof Ukraine, CPC of Ukraine and positions of procedural scholars given in the article gives grounds to state that the tendencies of deve -lopment of criminal procedure legislation of Ukraine bring the criminal process of Ukraine closer to the public-competitive model withAnglo-Saxon elements on an international and constitutional conceptual basis.The conceptual foundations of the modern criminal process of Ukraine are a system of theoretical, legal and praxeological provisionsof general nature, enshrined in the provisions of international legal documents that define international standards in the field ofhuman rights and the Constitution of Ukraine, which directly affect the content and model of domestic criminal process. The basic basisof the concept of the criminal process of Ukraine is the Constitution of Ukraine, which determines the basis and form of any legal phenomenonin the state. Despite the fact that the concept primarily reflects the theoretical foundations, basic principles and prerequisitesof a particular activity, it forms the basic concepts, schemes and forms according to which this activity is implemented. Thus, changingthe conceptual basis of criminal procedure is its most radical reform, as it leads to the need to abandon previously substantiated postulatesand standards of thinking and action, to change the basic concepts that ensure a holistic perception of the system of this activity,and therefore should be based on Constitution of Ukraine, which will build a constitutional and legal model of adversarial criminal proceedingsin Ukraine.