ISSUES TO APPLY RULES ON CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR KNOWING PERJURY, AN EXPERT'S OR SPECIALIST'S CONCLUSION OR WRONG TRANSLATION
While investigating crimes and hearing criminal cases in court, a law enforcement officer tries to find truth by examining evidence and comparing it with each other as well as in other ways provided for by law. In this regard, it is very important that all available information obtained while conducting criminal procedure and collected in the form of evidence should contain just true information. It is this condition that ensures justification to take measures of criminal law response as applied to person who has committed a crime. However, not every member of the Russian society has sufficient legal consciousness which results in perjuring while interrogating, making examination or translating. Such actions to be carried out by individual participants in the court proceedings not only prevent from realizing the main aims of justice, but also contain corpus delicti. The authors of the given article try to analyze the issues related to apply rules on criminal liability for perjury on the basis of which the proposals to amend the disposition of Art. 307 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation are formulated.