LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF A LAWYER IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
Background: The Basic Law of the Russian Federation defines the human being, his rights and freedoms as the highest value and entrusts Russia as a democratic federal state governed by the rule of law with the obligation to respect, protect and defend human and civil rights and freedoms, to create the necessary conditions guaranteeing the effective realization of their rights to judicial protection and legal assistance. In criminal proceedings legal assistance to participants of criminal proceedings is associated with ensuring the rights of persons who have suffered from a crime, as well as with the protection of an individual from unlawful criminal prosecution and conviction. Objective: to identify the main forms of legal assistance to participants in criminal proceedings as the basis of interrelated rules of law governing homogeneous social relations in pre- trial and trial proceedings and to develop on this basis of proposals to improve criminal procedural legislation and law enforcement practice. Methodology: the methodological basis of the work is a general scientific systematic method of knowledge, with the help of which the approaches to the provision of legal aid to participants in criminal proceedings, as a systemic integrity of certain interrelated rules of law governing the same legal relations in pre-trial and trial proceedings, are formulated. Results: the author's position regarding the content of legal aid to the participants of criminal proceedings, which meets the requirements of correlation between the interests of an individual, Russian society and the state, which together define the concept and meaning of legal aid in criminal proceedings, its current state and development, based on the improvement of norms of criminal procedural law and law enforcement practice, has been argued. Conclusions: the implementation of the results obtained by the authors of the article will optimize the idea of the need to create a mechanism for state guarantees of attorneys-defenders and attorneys-representatives to provide legal assistance in criminal proceedings, giving them equal authority to ensure the rights of participants in criminal proceedings.