State protection of a lawyer participating in criminal proceedings: shortcomings of legal regulation

The purpose of the work is to determine the content and identify the main problems of regulating the state protection of lawyers in connection with their participation in criminal proceedings as a defender, a representative of the victim, a civil plaintiff, a civil defendant and a private prosecutor. The formal legal method, the method of studying documents, the method of system analysis and other methods of cognition were used. The article examines the current regulatory legal acts regulating the provision of state protection to lawyers. The main aspects that hinder the full implementation of the guarantee provided to lawyers for state protection are highlighted. The significance of the work lies in the fact that it formulates the definition of the content of the state protection of a lawyer participating in criminal proceedings, identifies the main directions in the regulatory regulation of the state protection of lawyers in need of reform.