[THE LEGAL STATUS OF A PSYCHIATRIC EXPERT DURING A FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIC EXPERTISE].

The purpose of the article is to determine the feasibility and necessity of the mandatory participation of a psychiatrist in the conduct of a forensic psychiatric examination under the legislation of Ukraine and Georgia. The task is to outline the ways of improving the norms of the criminal law of both countries in the legal and medical spheres based on the analysis of the norms of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and the Criminal Procedure Code of Georgia. It has been established that the constitutional provision of the right to human health (in particular the researched one) in Ukraine and Georgia is contained not only in the codes and medical legislation of both states, but also in a number of international legal acts that have been ratified by their parliaments.