Ensuring the right to a fair trial in criminal proceedings: lessons from the pandemic

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring individual rights and freedoms in all areas of public life has proven to be problematic. The sphere of criminal proceedings is always associated with state coercion and restrictions on rights and freedoms, but during a pandemic, such restrictions expand further. This article reveals certain issues of ensuring the right to a fair trial under the conditions of quarantine measures adopted by different states. The use of the comparative legal research method allowed the author to identify general directions in solving problems related to ensuring the fairness of criminal proceedings in various states. The author believes that the problems associated with ensuring the right to a fair trial arising in a pandemic period require a systematic analysis that will determine the ways to solve them. The article contains several suggestions for optimizing modern criminal procedure. The author proposes to use the possibilities of digital transformation of criminal proceedings more actively, in a systemic way, requiring compliance with certain legal and organizational conditions.

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