Supervising is a modern way of organizing and exercising control over the various activities in order to ensure the required quality of work and compliance with prescribed requirements.
Monitoring can be considered both in a narrow and in a broader sense. In a narrow sense, monitoring of trials is limited to monitoring of the process in an open court, namely the activities of judges, prosecutors, lawyers and possibly other judicial officials. Monitoring enables to make predictions as to the outcome of the process, adjust the behavior of the process participants in accordance with reactions and behavior of other participants, and develop a strategy based on analytical findings. Accordingly, the use of monitoring enables to avoid common mistakes and minimize risks.
Most programs for monitoring trials define interference as prevention of contacts or interactions with the court on the substance of a case, as well as the prohibition of attempts to exert indirect influence on the outcome of court cases through informal channels. Even in cases where the intervention may lead to objectively fairer outcome of the case, such interference can compromise an independence of the court.
Objectivity Concept
In compliance with the objectivity concept, the programs of trial monitoring should provide accurate reports of proceedings, impartially following well-defined and accepted standards. This concept is preconditioned by the fact that trial monitoring is used as a diagnostic and monitoring tool. The legal monitoring is a new specific type of legal activity. It refers to the system of information observations, making it possible to analyze and evaluate the results of operations.