The article focuses on the modern theoretical, statutory and regulatory, and pragmatic prerequisites for the doctrinal recognition of the State as a subject of legal responsibility to an individual in the criminal process. The obligation of the State to be responsible to an individual for its actions is formulated in Article 3 of the Constitution of Ukraine; however, this issue is actually disregarded in scientific research: the theory of the State as a legal entity under public law is still underdeveloped, and thus there is no concept of legal responsibility of the State in general and in the criminal process in particular; and there is no elaboration of the theoretical model of the legal mechanism by which officials may be made responsible if they commit criminal procedural offenses, by recourse to the State. All this, as well as other issues, hinder the timely improvement of legislation and, consequently, complicate the implementation of the constitutional right of an individual to indemnification of the damage caused by the State’s bodies and officials. The purpose of the article is to provide a doctrinal rationale for the theoretical provisions of the State as a legal entity under public law and its legal responsibility to an individual in the criminal process, and their implementation in relevant legislation. Based on the critical analysis of legislation and literary sources, the authors formulate the main theses of the article as follows: the State as a legal entity under public law acts as a subject of law and legal responsibility to an individual, and this establishes, guarantees and ensures the observance of human rights, and if they are breached – reinstates them and indemnifies for its guilt; legal responsibility of the rule-of-law State to an individual as a constitutional principle is not fully specified in the criminal procedural legislation; legal responsibility has a public law nature, and therefore the initiative of indemnification for the damage caused by bodies and officials of the State should come, in the first place, from the subjects which caused the damage; the State’s responsibility to its citizens is realized through a system of bilateral legal relations according to the following scheme: the State is responsible to an individual, and an official vested with functional powers is responsible to the State in case of improper implementation of such powers. Given the provisions presented in the article, the authors arrive at the conclusions that there is an urgent need to develop a holistic scientific doctrine of the State’s legal responsibility to an individual, with due regard for its characteristics in the criminal process. This involves a scientific development of theoretical models of essential elements to offenses under criminal procedure law in accordance with their social danger and consequences for human rights, where such offences are committed by the subjects vested with power, for the sake of individualization of legal responsibility in criminal and administrative legislation. Based on the elaborated theoretical structure, the authors suggest that the comprehensive law “On Responsibility of the State for Damage Caused to an Individual” be adopted. Rehabilitation is the form via which the State’s legal responsibility to an individual is implemented in the criminal process, and legislative provisions regarding rehabilitation should be enshrined in the CCrP of Ukraine. This will allow to eliminate the declarative nature and uncertainty of some provisions of legislation and to introduce an efficient mechanism for the protection of human rights against the arbitrariness of public officials.

List of legal documents 
 

Legislation 
1. Evropejskaja konvencija po vozmeshheniju ushherba zhertvam nasil’stvennyh prestuplenij [European Convention on the Compensation of Victims of Violent Crimes] (ETS № 116). Strasburg, 24 nojabrja 1983 g. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/ show/994_319 accessed 30 August 2018 (in Russian). 
2. Konstytutsiia Ukrainy [The Constitution of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 28 chervnia 1996 r. № 254k/96-VR. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 
1996. № 30. St. 141 (in Ukrainian). 
3. Kryminalnyi protsesualnyi kodeks Ukrainy [The Code of Criminal Procedure of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 13 kvitnia 2012 r. № 4651-VI. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 2013. № 9-10, № 11-12, № 13. St. 88 (in Ukrainian). 
4. Pro poriadok vidshkoduvannia shkody, zavdanoi hromadianynovi nezakonnymy diiamy orhaniv, shcho zdiisniuiut operatyvno-rozshukovu diialnist, orhaniv dosudovoho rozsliduvannia, prokuratury i sudu [On the Procedure for Indemnification of Damage Caused to a Citizen by Unlawful Actions of Bodies Conducting Operational Investigative Activities, Bodies of Pre-Trial Investigation, Prosecution and Court]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 1 hrudnia 1994 r. № 266/94-ВР. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 1995. № 1. St. 1 (in Ukrainian). 
5. On Rehabilitation of Victims of Repressions of the Communist Totalitarian Regime in 1917-1991: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 17 kvitnia 1991 р. № 962-XII. URL: http://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/962-12/ed20181011 (accessed 30 August 2018) (in Ukrainian). 
6. Tsyvilnyi kodeks Ukrainy [The Civil Code of Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 16 sichnia 2003 r. № 435-IV. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 2003. №№ 40–44. St. 356 (in Ukrainian). 
 

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Dissertations 
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Newspaper articles 
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