Anastasiia A. Chavgun

this article analyzes the features of criminal bankruptcy: excessive casuistry of norms in the legislation of a number of countries, an attempt by the legislator to cover the entire range of ways of committing a crime, which indicates an incorrect approach from the point of view of legislative technique; the other extreme is an abstract approach to the construction of a norm that provides a law enforcement officer with a high degree of freedom when deciding on the presence of corpus delicti in the act.

this article analyzes the features of the appointment and conduct of the examination at the stage of preliminary investigation and at the stage of trial by the court of first instance; the authors examine the content of the expert's opinion, consider the conditions under which the expert has the right to go beyond the subject of the examination.