PRE-TRIAL COOPERATION AGREE MENT — A NEW IN STITUTE OF RU SSIAN CRIMINAL LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Abstract

Professor A. S. Shatalov studies in this article legal regulation of a new in Russia instituteof criminal proceedings referred to as “Specific order of taking court decision under pre-trial cooperation agreement”. The author comes to a conclusion that the main drawback of the institute seems to be a very vague prospective of trying criminal cases and the absenceof any provision on the liability of state bodies for breaching terms of the agreement signedby the public prosecutor. The author proposes to transmit the public prosecutor’s powersto make a pre-trial cooperation agreement to court, i. e. participant of the criminal trial authorized not to impose supervision but create opportunities for the parties on performingtheir procedural duties and entrusted rights.