Providing the Right to Qualified Legal Assistance during Overt Crime Detection Activities
The use of overt means of crime detection in documenting crimes determines the need for qualified legal assistance from a lawyer in the course of crime detection activities. In the conditions of modern legal regulation in law enforcement practice, a range of problematic issues arise that do not allow overall implementing the right to qualified assistance. Based on the analysis of the norms of the current legislation, the legal positions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, as well as the opinions of representatives of the bodies engaged in activities related to crime detection, the lawyers’ and the scientific community, the necessity of legislative consolidation of the mechanism for implementing the right to receive qualified legal assistance from a lawyer in the course of overt crime detection activities is substantiated.