There are some serious defects in the Chinese legislat ion on the procedure of placing a criminal case on file for invest igat ion and prosecution and the independence of such procedure is questionable. The unreasonableness of the current legislation has resulted in the imprecise applicat ion of compulsory measure and taking of invest igation methods by the criminal investigation organs before a criminal case is placed on file for investigation as well as in the phenomenon" of not placing a criminal case on file until it is
solved" in judicial practice. The author suggests that the procedure for placing a criminal case on file be abolished and replaced by a relatively simple case registration procedure and that the current procedure for placing a case on file be incorporated into the criminal investigation procedure. This will not only solve the problem of legal classification of the preliminary examination, but also makes the legal norms more operable. |