Czy społeczna Rada koordynacyjna ds. działalności ekspertów sądowych może być efektywnym narzędziem współpracy wymiaru sprawiedliwości i organów ścigania z placówkami ekspertyzy sądowej? (doświadczenia litewskie)

ENThe Law on Forensic Expertise in Lithuania came into force on 1st May 2003 along with the Criminal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and Code of the Execution of Penalties. The first article of the law determines its purpose: „This law sets the status of forensic experts and institutions of forensic expertise, defines qualification requirements for experts, procedure of setting of expert qualifications, conditions and procedure of usage of special knowledge while performing forensic expertise and requirements for the act of forensic expertise”. Whereas the article 16 only laconically states that „Activities of forensic expertise institutions and private forensic experts are coordinated by the Coordination Council of Forensic Experts Activities”. The period of validation of this law allowed to verify and to evaluate the convergence of wishes and intentions of the legislator with reality. The authors of the article presented the main phases of activities of Coordination Council of Forensic Experts Activity and emphasized some issues negatively influencing the cooperation of law enforcement with institutions of forensic expertise and experts. Keywords: forensic expertise, forensic expert, Lithuania, Coordination Council of Forensic Experts Activity.