The Committee on Legislative Support of Law Enforcement recommends that the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts in the Second Reading and in its Entirety the Bill on Amendment to the Criminal-Procedural Code of Ukraine (regarding the Right of the Witness for the Lawyer)
Published on 18 March 2010, at 11:03
The
Bill (Reg.№4328) envisages that the witness should be allotted with the right
on use of the legal assistance during the procedural actions in criminal legal
proceedings with his participants. In particular, the amendments to the
Criminal-Procedural Code should be introduced according to which the witness
ahs the rights to be interrogated in a presence of the choused by him lawyer or
other specialist in law sphere according to the law on legal assistance.
The author advanced arguments for the adoption of the Law by
the fact that the Criminal-Procedural Code does not envisage the possibility of
the legal protection of the witnesses.
The Members of the Committee uphold the Bill adoption of
which according to them, would provide the opportunity to allot the legal
support to the witnesses as a participants of the criminal procedures.