ELECTRONIC EVIDENCE OF THE PROCEDURAL LEGISLATION OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article examines and analyzes judicial practice and scientific developments regarding the use of electronic evidence in the process of proving, as well as procedural norms of national legislation regulating the use of electronic evidence in economic, administrative and civil proceedings. On this basis, it is proposed to improve the criminal procedural legislation on the subject of a clear definition of the concept and types of electronic evidence, the assignment of electronic evidence to procedural sources of evidence, as well as the formation of a unified approach in all procedural codes regarding the use of such a category as a copy of electronic evidence. The authors draw attention that unlike the Code of Administrative Procedure, as well as the Economic and Civil Procedural Codes of Ukraine, the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine does not contain normative regulation of the use of electronic evidence in the process of proof within the framework of criminal proceedings, which determines the classification of electronic evidence to such procedural sources as physical evidence or document, also, the lack of regulatory regulation of the use of electronic evidence in the process of proof within the framework of criminal proceedings, which determines the classification of electronic evidence to such procedural sources as physical evidence or a document. Based on the analysis of judicial practice, differences in the understanding of such a concept as a copy of electronic evidence in criminal proceedings and civil, economic and administrative proceedings were established. In addition, there is a problem with the use of screenshots as one of the types of electronic evidence in criminal proceedings. It is noted the need to develop criteria for the admissibility of electronic evidence not only in criminal proceedings, but also in civil, economic and administrative ones. On the basis of the analysis of court practice in criminal proceedings, it is proposed to enshrine a unified approach in all procedural codes of the provision that in the case of storing information with electronic display on several electronic media, each of the electronic copies is considered the original of the electronic document.