Ensuring the rights of victims at appointment and production of forensic examinations

The article is devoted to ensuring the rights and legitimate interests of victims during the appointment and production of forensic examinations. The author considers the problems most often faced by victims: untimely familiarization with the ruling on the appointment of expert examination, delaying the terms of expert examinations, violation of methods of expert research. Separately, the author touches upon the status of reviews of expert reports, which victims, as well as the defense, submit when challenging the conclusions of the expert and justifying petitions for the appointment of abrepeat or additional expert examination. The author admits the use of reviews as evidence - the conclusion of abspecialist, but points out the need to regulate in the law the methodology of reviewing and requirements for reviewers. In this case, abspecialist-reviewer should not go into the solution of issues that are the exclusive competence of the law enforcer. The article also analyzes the issue of the rights of the victim at the appointment of forensic examinations in relation to him/herself, in particular, the admissibility of compulsory referral for examination and the consequences of evasion from the examination.