PAYMENT OF EXPERTS, TRANSLATORS, AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF PROCEDURAL DUTIES

Abstract

This article discusses the payment mechanisms for experts, translators, and specialists who have performed their duties during the investigation or trial. The main attention is focused on criminal-procedural legislation on procedural expenses, law enforcement practice, and uncertainties in criminal-procedural law via this article. The degree of impact of the identified issues on the mechanisms of payment of fees to experts, translators, and specialists for their work has been studied. Legislative norms and the scientific-theoretical views of local and foreign scientists have been analyzed in comparative legal terms. The roles of experts, translators, and specialists in the criminal process and the aspects to be taken into account when paying them for the tasks performed, including the features of performing the tasks in the order of the service assignment. The proposals have been developed on the basis of the analysis, regarding the regulation of the criteria and conditions for paying experts, translators, and specialists for the tasks they perform and the improvement of criminal procedural legislation. It is expedient to use the developed scientific and practical proposals in the improvement of legislation, in the practice of conducting criminal cases, as well as in the development of the theory of criminal-procedural law. The implementation of these proposals in practice encourages full compliance with the procedural rights and obligations of the expert, specialist, and translator established by the law, as well as the serious performance of their duties, and creates the basis for the reliable protection of the property rights of a person in criminal proceedings.