V sbornik vklyucheny osnovnye polozheniya Konstitutsii Rossiyskoy Federatsii, inyh zakonov i podzakonnyh normativnyh pravovyh aktov Rossiyskoy Federatsii, a takzhe razyasneniya Plenuma Verhovnogo Suda Rossiyskoy Federatsii, polnostyu ili v chasti kasayuschiesya voprosov sudebnoy meditsiny i sudebnoy psihiatrii, v t. ch. reguliruyuschie protsessualnyy poryadok organizatsii i deyatelnosti pravoohranitelnyh organov i organov zdravoohraneniya pri naznachenii i provedenii sudebno-meditsinskoy i sudebno-psihiatricheskoy ekspertiz, osvidetelstvovaniya i proch. Dlya studentov, aspirantov, prepodavateley yuridicheskih i meditsinskih vuzov i fakultetov, dlya yuristov, rabotnikov pravoohranitelnyh organov, organov zdravoohraneniya i inyh organov, a takzhe samogo shirokogo kruga chitateley.