Legal Encyclopedia. The letter P

VICTIM

- Party to the criminal proceedings; natural person who has suffered physical crime, property, non-pecuniary damage, as well as a legal entity in the event of a crime of harm to his property and business reputation.

The decision on the recognition of AP issued Decree of the inquirer, investigator, prosecutor or court.

PA has the right to:

1) be aware of the charge brought against the accused;

2) to give evidence;

3) to refuse to testify against himself, his wife (his wife), and other close relatives. If the victim agrees to testify, he should be warned that his testimony may be used as evidence in criminal proceedings, including in the event of a subsequent failure of these indications;

4) submit evidence;

5) make motions and challenges;

6) to give evidence in their native language or the language he speaks;

7) to an interpreter free of charge;

8) have a representative;

9) to participate with the permission of the investigator or the inquiry officer in investigative actions conducted at his request or the request of his representative;

10) to get acquainted with the records of investigative actions performed with his participation, and submit comments on them;

11) to get acquainted with the decree on the appointment of forensic and expert opinion in the cases stipulated by h. 2 tablespoons. 198 of this Code;

12) to get acquainted at the end of the preliminary investigation of the criminal case with all materials of the criminal case to write any information and in any volume, make copies of the materials of the criminal case, including by technical means. If the criminal case involved multiple victims, each of them has the right to get acquainted with the materials

criminal proceedings relating to the harm caused to the victim this;

13) to receive copies of the decisions to initiate criminal proceedings, recognition of his victims or to deny it, to dismiss the criminal case, the suspension of the criminal proceedings, as well as copies of the judgment of the trial court, the decisions of the courts of appeal and cassation instances;

14) participate in the proceedings of the criminal case in the courts of first, second and supervising instances;

15) act in the judicial debates;

16) to support the prosecution;

17) to get acquainted with the protocol of the court session and submit comments on it;

18) to lodge complaints against the actions (inaction) and decisions of the inquirer, investigator, prosecutor and court;

19) appeal against the judgment, decision, ruling;

20) to know about the criminal case complaints and representations and objections submitted to them;

21) apply for the application of security measures.

P. provided compensation imuschest

venous damage caused by the crime, expenses incurred in connection with his participation in the course of the preliminary investigation and in court, including the representative of the costs.

According to the claim for compensation P. in monetary terms the amount of compensation for moral damage caused to him determined by the court in a criminal case or in civil proceedings.

PA has the right: to evade summons of the inquirer, investigator, prosecutor and the court; give false testimony or refuse to give testimony; disclose preliminary investigation if he was warned about it beforehand.

If the victim is not on call without a valid reason, he may be subject to detention.

For refusing to testify or for knowingly giving false testimony, the disclosure of preliminary investigation data SP is responsible in accordance with Art. 307, 308 and 310 of the Criminal Code.

In criminal cases on crimes, the consequence of which was the death of a person, P. rights are transferred to one of his close relatives.

If the AP is a legal entity, it shall exercise the rights representative.