Unlawfulness of determination of the mechanism of an injury by the forensic medical examiner

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the meanings of the corresponding definitions («the mechanism of an injury», «the specialized knowledge», «competence of forensic expert»), describes requirements of the existing criminal procedural legislation of Ukraine relating to the performing of examinations and procedural status of forensic expert, showing that that the forensic medical examiner without specialized knowledge, skills and training in the field of Biomechanics - one of the section of Biophysics, is not authorized, so he should not and has no procedural law right to give an expert opinion on the non-medical question of investigator (detective), prosecutor or the court about the mechanism of damage formation in the injured person.