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The aim of this article is to study legal regulation, doctrinal approaches on understanding and using presumptions in criminal procedure proof of the states with continental and Anglo-American legal systems. The methodological basis of this research consists of general scientific and special legal methods, namely dialectical, analysis, generalization, structural and functional, hermeneutic, dogmatic and comparative legal methods. The article analyzes one of the means of criminal procedure proof – presumption. By analyzing the corresponding norms of CPC of Ukraine, legal positions of the European Court of Human Rights, Supreme Court of the USA and the views of fellow researchers, the authors present their vision of issues within the scope of the study. The significance of presumptions as means of proof in criminal proceedings is clarified and their types which are distinguished in the doctrine of criminal procedure of continental and Anglo-American legal systems are characterized.
Bobechko et al. (2024) studied this question.