Despite the fact that there are many exposures in the literature on the concept of procedural form and the importance of its definition, the views presented are different and often even contradictory. The necessity of determining the essence of the procedural form appears as a result of the determination in the criminal procedure of different types of procedural regulations. In this case, we could discuss the criminal procedural form as a general criterion of the criminal trial against the general dimensions of the law of law and, at the same time, as a system characteristic of a special type of institutional relations with its own features and regulations.