Principle "The reasonable term of criminal legal proceedings"
The national criminal procedure legislation not fully conforms also to standards of International law. Absence of norm with possible terms of legal proceedings on criminal case, is result of an unreasonable tightening of judicial proceedings, establishment of truth on business. In recent years the European Court of Human Rights took out a large number of decisions against the Russian Federation in connection with red tape of the Russian investigators and courts connected with violation of reasonable terms of hearing of cases. At the same time so-called excessive formalization of terms of criminal trial is inadmissible. Solving the specified problem, in national criminal legal proceedings there was a principle of the «reasonable term» applied to circumstances of concrete criminal case. The author gave the developed characteristic of criteria of an assessment of «the reasonable term». Jurisprudence examples are given. Law-enforcement practice of the European Court of Human Rights is of great importance for improvement of the national criminal procedure legislation now and corrects an activity of the Russian courts for the purpose of the correct understanding of provisions of the Convention of 1950, and as result - observance of human rights as embroider the value proclaimed by the constitutional state. The conclusion that emergence in the existing procedural legislation of the Russian Federation of the principle «the reasonable term» is a necessary condition of realization of the mechanism of protection of the right for legal proceedings in the reasonable time or the rights for performance of the judicial act in reasonable time is