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The presented article is made within the scope of the research subject of the science of the criminal process. It highlights the problematic issues of determining the content and mechanism of proper implementation of the principle of equality before the law and the court in criminal proceedings. The publication puts forward proposals for improving the conceptual apparatus regarding the issues under consideration and some provisions of the current legislation. The relevance of the publication is due to the need to improve scientific developments devoted to the general principles of criminal proceedings, bringing the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine into line with the requirements of international legal acts on the problem of combating discrimination. The purpose of preparing the article was to reveal the main issues of the socio-legal content of the principle of equality before the law, defined in Art. 10 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, as well as some relevant issues that are directly related to this. The prerequisites for the formation of this goal were the modern problems that arise during pre-trial investigation and trial in criminal proceedings. The author used general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge. Thus, from the general scientific methods, in particular, the system-structural method, the method of functional analysis, from the special ones - formallegal, logical-procedural methods, the method of comparative jurisprudence were used. The main legislative norms related to the topic of the publication have been analyzed. The publication proves that the requirements that determine the grounds and procedure for choosing some preventive measures have certain defects that can directly affect the behavior of participants in criminal proceedings, prompting them to violate the principle of equality before the law and the court. It is proposed to enshrine certain provisions in the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine, thanks to which it would be possible to avoid violations of individual rights and freedoms. Further scientific research on the selected issue identified the following issues: guarantees of equality of rights and freedoms of citizens, introduction of legal expertise of the CPC of Ukraine and current regulatory and legal acts related to the field of criminal justice, with a view to identifying provisions in them that encourage discriminatory manifestations, normative -legal consolidation of ideas on optimizing the situation of materially indigent participants in criminal proceedings, developing an effective mechanism for bringing to legal responsibility subjects of criminal proceedings for non-compliance with the principle of equality before the law and the court.
M. I. Derevyanko (Wed,) studied this question.