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The actual participants in criminal proceedings, deprived of their own legal status, are persons whose property rights are affected by criminal procedure decisions (on seizure of property, confiscation of property, recognition of property as material evidence). Purpose: to define intersectoral analogies of legal status for these persons; to find out the applicability as a model for borrowing the concept of a third party not declaring independent claims on the dispute subject – party to arbitration and civil proceedings. The determining method of the research is the method of comparative law. In addition, general and special methods (analysis and synthesis, logical, special-legal) are applied. Results: the article reveals a high degree of similarity in criminal procedure relations, the actual participants of which are persons whose property becomes the subject of authoritative decisions, with relations in arbitration and civil proceedings involving third parties.

The article discusses the reasons for choosing convergence, that is, the approximation of criminal procedural law with arbitration procedural law, civil procedural law and administrative procedural law as a way to solve historically accumulated and newly emerging problems of criminal justice. Purpose: to identify the possibilities of convergence of procedural law in improving national criminal procedure. Methods: the method of comparative law is the determining method of the research. In addition, general and special methods are applied (analysis and synthesis, logical, special-legal). Results: the large number of differences in the regulation of similar procedural relations in different branches of the procedure does not always have sufficient sectoral justification. The digitalization of law demonstrates the acceptability of the universalization of certain procedural groups of norms according to the models of civil and administrative procedures. The author substantiates the idea of the absence of such a significant substantive specificity of criminal proceedings, which would not allow for direct parallels with other types of proceedings. The focus of criminal procedure on the application of criminal law and measures of criminal repression should not lead to the loss of the features inherent in justice as a whole: the adversarial nature of all judicial procedures, equality of evidentiary and other procedural opportunities for the disputing parties, equal opportunity to state in the final court decision the rightness of the prosecution and defense parties.

The «cross-cutting» institutions of criminal, civil, arbitration and administrative procedures are not always universal and identical. Despite terminological coincidences and generally similar notions of petitions in different types of proceedings, the places they occupy in criminal and civil proceedings are different. Purpose: to determine the balance of petitions and applications in criminal procedures, on the one hand and in civil, arbitration and administrative procedures, on the other hand. The determining method of the study is the method of comparative law. In addition, general and special methods (analysis and synthesis, logical, special-legal) are applied. Results: the criminal procedure concept of petitions includes heterogeneous appeals of law enforcement agencies to the court and requests addressed to these bodies by the participants in the pre-trial stages of proceedings, which have no analogues in civil procedure and «classic» petitions of the parties before the court. In criminal procedure, in contrast to arbitration, administrative and civil procedures, petitions many times prevail over applications.

The urgency of developing unified approaches to the reform of procedural legislation is justified by its aggravated lack of system and chaotic nature of the changes introduced. Purpose: to analyze the current legislative work on the reform of criminal procedure and other legislation and its impact on the quality of criminal proceedings and the prospects for its convergence with other types of judicial process. Methods: the method of comparative law is the determining method of the research. In addition, general and special methods are applied (analysis and synthesis, logical, special-legal). Results: the study reveals the lack of consistency between the changes made and those planned in the sectoral procedural legislation. The development of digital technologies contributed to the spread of the use of web conferences in court and capabilities of Portal of Government Services in arbitration, civil and administrative proceedings, but not in criminal ones. The bills under consideration in the State Duma of the Russian Federation to modify the procedure for appealing challenges in criminal proceedings and to exclude decisions on administrative offences from the list of acts of prejudicial significance in criminal proceedings, do not take into account the state of the relevant universal institutions in other forms of justice.