On April 26, 2024, on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “The Impact of Innovations on the Development of Forensic Expertise: from Traditional Methods to Digital Transformation” was held in Lviv. The event was held online and offline. The conference was moderated by Nataliia Khomych, Deputy Director for Research of the Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise and Nataliia Senyk, First Deputy Director of the Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise.
Oleksandr Ruvin, Director of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, solemnly congratulated the participants on the anniversary, outlined the long history of the Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, starting from the years of its foundation, and emphasized the importance of its activities.
Welcoming remarks were also made by:
Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration;
Andriy Haichenko, Deputy Minister of Justice of Ukraine for Enforcement Service, Ph;
Oleksandr Shlyakhovskyi, Head of the Main Department of the National Police in Lviv Oblast;
Vadym Onyshchenko, Head of the Security Service of Ukraine in Lviv region;
Hennadiy Demchenko, Head of the Lviv Regional Prosecutor’s Office;
Anatoliy Kovalchuk, Prosecutor of the Zakarpattia region;
Roman Rybitsky, Head of the Internal Affairs Department in Lviv region of the National Police of Ukraine;
Oleh Krip, Head of the Cybercrime Department in Lviv Region of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine, Police Colonel;
Nataliia Tkachenko, Director of the Department of Expert Support of Justice of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, PhD in Law, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
Serhii Tiuleniev, Director of the National Scientific Center “Bokarius Institute of Forensic Expertise” of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, PhD in Economics;
Serhii Rozumnyi, Director of the Dnipro Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine;
Mykhailo Mozhayev, Director of the Research Center for Forensic Examination in the Field of Information Technology and Intellectual Property of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Doctor of Technical Sciences;
Dmytro Kishko, Director of the Odesa Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
Ihor Benedysiuk, judge of the Commercial Court of Cassation of the Supreme Court;
Ihor Starodubov, President of the Union of Experts of Ukraine;
Yuriy Chechil, Director of the Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Special Equipment and Forensic Expertise of the Security Service of Ukraine, PhD in Law, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
Serhii Krymchuk, Head of the Expert Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Director of the State Scientific Research Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, PhD in Law;
Ruslan Liashko, Director of the State Bureau of Investigation in Lviv, and other distinguished guests.
Tetyana Tamakova, Acting Head of the Psychological Research Laboratory of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, took part in the conference online and presented a report on the problems of research in cases concerning the determination of the approximate amount of compensation for non-pecuniary damage within group (class) actions: the research aspect; and on the impact of innovations on the development of expertise: from traditional methods to digital transformation.
The conference addressed the following topics: economic crimes of accounting personnel, areas of their classification and research; the impact of innovations on the development of linguistic speech examination; the application of machine learning methods in the tasks of forensic railway and transport examination; the prospects for the use of electronic documents in forensic economic examination in the context of digitalization; peculiarities of conducting forensic trace examinations in criminal proceedings on the facts of illegal logging of trees, on information security and modern digital communication; on the possibility of conducting an examination of diagnostic and rehabilitation techniques in the context of copyright; on the peculiarities of psychological examination of victims of juvenile (minor) persons and witnesses of domestic violence; on modern approaches to forensic examination of paper; on the impact of the development of computing technology on forensic economic examination; on the issue of preventing expert mistakes and violations of forensic experts during forensic examinations, etc.
On behalf of the staff of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, we congratulate the Lviv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise on its anniversary! Your contribution to the development of forensic science is extremely important.
We wish you to continue to maintain a high level of scientific achievements, expand your research horizons and continue to serve justice!
