Procedural Order: The Concept

The paper documents the traditional approach to the consideration of procedural orders based on differentiation (fragmentation) of the criminal procedure. The paper differs in that the author considers procedural order as a generic concept. To do this, the author analyzes the normative and theoretical basis (relative to the specified object area) of the study, identifies essential features. In order to define the concept through genus and specific differences, the concept of «legal order» is used as a generic concept, and such characteristics as functional structure are used as specific differences, constant dynamic connection between the elements of the structure. As a specific object area, the procedure for formulating a juror questionnaire and the procedure for presenting a person for identification in a judicial investigation are used. The author concludes that the procedural order is a legal order formed by the elements of the functional structure of the procedural activity of the participants involved in it with stable dynamic connections between these elements that persist throughout the criminal procedural activity.