Scientific Journal of the National Academy of Internal Affairs

In this article on the basis of analysis of the current criminal procedural legislation and scientists’ points of view in this area are detected the existing problems of legal regulation of appointment and conduct criminalistic (forensic) examinations in criminal proceedings. These unresolved issues can be referred in the way in which the criminal proceedings, the parties may attract an expert and in which cases the defense or the victim can file a petition to the prosecutor or investigator to involve expert, shortage in the text of many articles which are related to the appointment and conducting forensic examinations mentions of the victim, which also have the right to obtain expert opinion, without certainty the status of recurring, additional, complex of fees forensic examination and etc. On this basis, the necessity of making certain changes to the current legislation and proposed specific recommendations to eliminate gaps, which the author believes should positively influence the process of attracting expert, performing the studies and achieve the ultimate objectives of criminal proceedings.