The judicial inquiry of a criminal case: collecting or examining evidence?

Introduction: today, in the system of criminal procedure regulation, there are some contradictions between the provisions of the law defining the general rules, primarily the structure, of working with evidence and the norms establishing the procedure for conducting a judicial inquiry as one of the basic stages of proof. The paper deals both with the consideration of these issues and the search for solutions to the doctrinal and practical problems arising in this regard. The purpose of the paper is to identify criteria for distinguishing collecting evidence and examining evidence as two independent components of criminal procedural evidence.