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Nadiya STEFANIV,

Judge of the Court of Appeal of Ivano-Frankivsk Region

SOME POINTS OF THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO CONSIDER IN THE ASSESSING PROCESS OF EVIDENCES, WHICH WERE OBTAINED IN A RESULT OF PROVIDING COVERT INVESTIGATIVE (DETECTIVE) ACTIONS

This article deals with some issues of the European Court of Human Rights Court in the assessing of evidences, which were obtained in a result of providing covert investigative (detective) actions. The emphasis is made on those cases, where the grounds for the recognition of an evidence as inadmissible are not absolute, and the procedure for checking the admissibility of evidence, which are obtained as a result of providing covert investigative (detective) actions, is a subject of the lawsuit, in the resolving of which the case law of the European Court of Human Rights is very important.

Key words: European Court of Human Rights, covert investigative (detective) actions, assessing of the evidence.

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