Тhe priority expert system and the self -regulatory organization as the mechanisms, which control the level of qualification of forensic experts in the Russian Federation

Purpose: Consideration of topical issues of reforming of organizational and legal bases of judicial and forensic expert activity in Russia. Methodology: Authors applied a formal-legal method, a comparative and legal method, a method of the included supervision, a method of theoretical modeling. Results: In article the bill «About Judicial and Forensic Expert Activity in the Russian Federation» is analysed and the mechanism of management by a skill level of forensic experts in the Russian Federation, consisting in use of priority expert system, in the presence of the certificate of competence and the state database of the registered experts is offered. It is also offered to create in the territory of each subject of the Russian Federation of associations in the form of the self-regulating organizations the forensic experts having the existing certificate of competence can be which members. Novelty/originality/value: Article contains representing scientific and practical importance author’s ideas, generalizations, conclusions and the offers directed on improvement of a number of the directions within system of judicial and forensic expert activity in Russia.