The relevance of the study is determined by the need to improve the procedure for obtaining information provided by minors and juvenile witnesses during interrogation regarding the circumstances known to them in criminal proceedings at the litigation stage, while ensuring the best respect for the children's interests. The authors employed philosophical, general scientific, and special scientific methods of cognition, which allowed conducting a detailed analysis of the procedure for interrogating minor and juvenile witnesses at the litigation stage. To develop scientific proposals for improving the legislative regulation of the interrogation of minor and juvenile witnesses during the litigation, the study defined the principles of child-friendly justice that must be observed during this procedural action, as well as the guarantees stipulated by the Criminal Procedural Code of Ukraine and aimed at implementing international standards for ensuring the rights of minors in criminal proceedings. The authors of this study state that the legislative definition of requirements imposed separately on the teacher, psychologist, and doctor involved in the interrogation of minor or juvenile witnesses, as well as the procedure for involving such persons by the court and the pre-trial investigation body, would considerably improve the quality of the required aid to minor witnesses and would meet international standards. The study analyses the international practices concerning the introduction of the institution of representation in the litigation of pre-recorded testimony of minors and juvenile witnesses. The authors established that the introduction of such an institution is absolutely justified and will have an exceptionally positive effect both for minor and juvenile witnesses, as well as for the process of proof, and can be implemented in Ukrainian legislation. Scientific proposals have been developed to improve the legislative regulation of the interrogation of minor and juvenile witnesses during court proceedings
The urgency and urgent necessity to develop a research topic are due to a number of factors. First of all, the legal community unanimously reached a consensus on the necessity to reform the institution of notaries in the direction of expanding the powers and functions of public and private notaries, increasing the requirements for these participants in the context of the procedure of certification of transactions (contracts) in various fields. The reform of the Ukrainian notary has recently exhausted its potential and positive expectations on the part of civil society, which is only complicated by the progressive situation with the spread of acute respiratory infections caused by the COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 virus. The purpose of this article was to objectively outline the existing problems in the field of law enforcement, related to the peculiarities of electronic transactions that require notarization, with the formulation of author's proposals to improve legislation in this area. The study was conducted using a number of general and special methods, a key role among which was played by comparative legal and statistical-prognostic methods, which were used to thoroughly analyze the current state of affairs in the field of electronic certification of transactions by notaries. As a result of the study, the authors concluded that in the development of the global information society and digital economy, the issue of electronic transactions requiring notarization needs further involvement of both theoretical and scientific research, as well as the development of practical solutions and proposals to improve the electronic interaction system.
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