On November 30, 2022, a meeting was held for 1st-year students of the Faculty of Law with Igor Starodubov, director of the separate structural unit of the State Enterprise «Information Judicial Systems» «Center for Forensic Examination and Expert Research», forensic expert, patent attorney, appraiser.
During the meeting on the topic «Forensic expert: modern requirements for the profession», Ihor Vadymovych told the students about the activities of the State Enterprise, which belongs to the sphere of management of the State Judicial Administration of Ukraine. Among the main functions of the enterprise, the speaker noted, are: conducting forensic examinations assigned in criminal, civil, economic, administrative cases, cases of administrative offenses and during executive proceedings, as well as on the order of participants in criminal, civil, economic and administrative cases; conducting consultations with the provision of advisory messages on issues outside the scope of judicial proceedings using the means and methods of forensic examination and performing other work at the request of law enforcement agencies and courts, as well as on the order of legal entities and individuals, and others.
The students of higher education were especially interested in the examples from the practical activities of the guest, namely in relation to the competences that forensic experts should possess, in particular: to know the provisions of the legislation of Ukraine, which set out the requirements for a forensic expert, the grounds and procedure for acquiring the legal status of a forensic expert, his rights, obligations, legal guarantees, legal responsibility, grounds for revocation; to be able to provide professional consultations and other informational assistance to judges, prosecutors, lawyers, employees of pre-trial investigation bodies on research and assessment of material objects, phenomena and processes related to the circumstances of cases; to be able to provide practical assistance to prosecutors, investigators, operatives in the use of technical and forensic methods and tools in the detection and investigation of crimes, in putting forward investigative versions, selecting samples for comparative research, and others.
Summarizing the results of the event, the head of the Department of Theory and History of the State and Law, Olena Makeіeva, expressed her thanks for the interesting lecture and valuable advice for future lawyers and invited Igor Starodubov and his colleagues to cooperate in further scientific activities and during legal practice.