Final and Intermediate Court Decisions in the Context of Unification and Differentiation of Court Proceedings in Criminal Procedure

The paper investigates normative-legal concepts of final and intermediate court decisions in criminal proceedings. Having carried out verbal and semantic and subject-content analysis of these definitions, the author reveals their drawbacks in terms of the terminology used and fictiousness in terms in the context of their subject matter. It is stated that the concept of an interim court decisions includes heterogeneous judicial acts fundamentally different in their nature and purpose. On the basis of the provisions of the theory of differentiation of criminal proceedings and the application of the method of systemic and structural analysis of the procedural activity of the criminal court, it is concluded that judicial acts and the final decisions of higher courts have common characteristics of final court decisions and should not be classified as interim, i.e. auxiliary. It is proposed to limit the concept of an interim judgment to a set of preparatory decisions, decisions to enforce and organizational decisions taken by the court in the course of preparation and conduct of a trial in any criminal proceedings.

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