Information and reference support of judicial examinations as a scientific category

Abstract

The article expresses the basic development tendencies of the inquiry and communication support of judicial examinations. The purpose of this publication is the analysis of methodological and methodical issues of the system’s formation and creation of the inquiry and communication support of judicial examinations. It is shown, that, in recent years the informational support of all spheres of human activity has passed to a new qualitative level, information technologies and systems have received a wide expansion, the information networks, therefore the judicial-expert activity has not been aside of these processes as well. Advanced achievements of science and techniques, new fields of knowledge, new technologies are also integrated into the sphere of judicial expert activity. This process involves organizational, methodical, legal and informational supply of judicial examination and it is directed to optimize the accumulation, preservation, ordering, analysis and use of the information which is necessary for its carrying out. As back as 60th years of the XX century the research of possibilities of application of the information technologies in domestic judicial examination and attempts to decide the problems connected with this began on the territory of modern Ukraine, it started from the moment of the first application of the computer in the handwriting examination. The active researches and practical work trainings have begun in this sphere since then. However, today there are no comprehensive researches of scientific and organizational, theoretical problems of search, collecting and processing of the expert information, creation of the system of the information supply of the judicial examinations. The author suggests to consider the information support of judicial examinations in two aspects: as an activity to receive the information, which is important during carrying out a judicial examination, and as a set of the material objects containing the information which can be used while implementing the judicial expert activity. The author suggests to consider the information support of judicial expert activity as a complex of organizational, administrative, legal actions for collecting, concentration and ordering of necessary data from different fields of knowledge and sources of expert practice, and formation on this basis of information resources which are the content of the information systems and the result of functioning of which is the delivery by the subject of judicial expert activity of expert problems’ data necessary to be performed for the expert issues.