Criminal law and legal significance factual errors in law enforcement activities

Abstract

This article is devoted to problems of disclosure of content of "mistake" for effective application of criminal norms of law and institutes in investigative and judicial practice . Lack of accurate and consistent definition of concept of mistake in literature and special norms about mistakes in the Criminal code of the Azerbaijan Republic generates in law-enforcement activity serious difficulties at qualification of act of the person in the conditions of commission of mistake. Therefore in article definitions of legal and factual mistakes in legal literature are considered, the comparative and legal analysis of institute of mistake in the criminal legislation of foreign countries is carried out, judicial practice is studied.