scholarly journals SYSTEM OF SOURCES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW OF SWITZERLAND

Author(s):  
Александр Трефилов ◽  
Aleksandr Trefilov

The author considers the operating system of sources of criminal procedure law of Switzerland. The author studies the question of the international law influence on their development. The author analyzes such sources as the Constitution, the Message of the Federal Assembly on unification of criminal procedure law, the Code of penal procedure, the Federal law on organization of the Federation’s criminal trial bodies, the Federal law on the Federal court, the Federal law on Federal criminal court and some other enactments. The author briefly considers the criminal procedure law on the example of Zurich and St. Gallen cantonal sources. The author researches the role of the legal doctrine in application of Criminal Procedure Code rules. The author compares the Swiss and Russian systems of sources in the branch of law in question. The author comes to the conclusion that the systems of sources of criminal procedure of Switzerland and Russia have many common features, since both legal systems of the states belong to the Romano-Germanic legal family. Law and order of both states have the Criminal Procedure Code, based on the rules of international law and the constitution, as the main source of criminal procedure. At the same time, in spite of the fact that Constitutions of both countries refer the criminal procedure law to the exclusive competence of the federation, in the Swiss law and order there are numerous exceptions to this rule as many major questions relating to criminal procedure are settled at the cantonal level (structure of court, system of criminal trial bodies, etc.).

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-43
Author(s):  
Florin Octavian Barbu ◽  
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Claudiu Gabriel Neacșu ◽  

From the provisions of art. 25 para. 1 and art. 397 para. 1 of the Criminal Procedure Code, as in the previous regulation, it results that the legislator took into account an element not only of civil justice, but also of social ethics, when it was established that the criminal court also rules, through the same decision, on the action civil. Basically, the two provisions stated above express the same idea, although this repetition was not absolutely necessary. From the current regulation of solving the civil action during the criminal trial, we notice that the legislator has maintained a series of general principles such as: cases of ex officio settlement of the civil action, dependence of the civil action on the way the criminal action is settled, the disjunction of the civil action from the criminal proceedings, the failure to resolve the civil action as a distinct procedure from that of admitting or rejecting the civil action, resolving the civil action only by the court, and the interdiction to resolve it during the criminal investigation, which, however, were adapted to a new legislative vision.


2017 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 9-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ljubica KORDIĆ ◽  
Borislav MARUŠIĆ

Back in the 18thcentury, structures with phrasal verbs (FVG) were determined as a featureof German technical language. These constructs are still present in the language of law. Although the administrative language is considered a part of the legal language, there are discursive differences between specific(sub)languages in the field of law. One can speak of the discourses of justice, of criminal law, of international law, etc. It is the language of administrative law that citizens as lay people are most often confronted with, and it is often criticized as "a bureaucracy language", or "the paper style". The aim of this paper is to examine the structures with phrasal verbs frequently occurring in the language of German administrative law and compare them with those in German criminal procedure law. First partofthecorpusisbuiltbyphrasalverbstructuresexcerptedfromfollowing German laws: Verwaltungsverfahrensgesetz, Verwaltungsvollstreckungsgesetz, Verwaltungskostengesetz. In order to explore potential discursive differences between specific languages in the field of law, the collected examples are compared with the most frequent phrasal verb structures of the German criminal procedure law. For that purpose, the Criminal Procedure Code (StPO) of 1987 (last amended in 2015) is used as the second part of the researched corpus. In the concluding part of the paper, the authors draw conclusions based on the analysis carried out. The results of this study can be of assistance to law students in mastering German legal terminology, to all linguists dealing with German language of law and especially to all translators and interpreters from the German and into the German language.


2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-367
Author(s):  
N.V. Mashinskaya ◽  

The problem of legislative regulation of the procedure for reconciliation of the victim with the suspected, the accused until a certain time was only a subject of discussion in the scientific literature. At the same time the state’s need to find measures that can eliminate the consequences of crimes without the use of ordinary criminal procedures has actualized the work on introducing alternative methods of settling the criminal-legal conflict into criminal proceedings. Given the urgent need to apply this procedure in practice, the Interregional Public Center “Judicial and Legal Reform” has developed and posted on its website a draft federal law “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation to Provide the Victim, Suspect, and Accused with the Possibility of Reconciliation.” To implement the procedure for reconciliation in criminal proceedings, the drafters of the bill propose to include a new chapter in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation). The author of the article critically evaluates the attempt due to the inconsistency of a number of novels, their uncertainty and inconsistency with the norms of the criminal procedure law. To eliminate the existing shortcomings, it is proposed to provide a separate article defining the procedural status of the conciliator and to include the specified rule in Ch. 8 of the Criminal Procedure Code of the Russian Federation. As a guarantee of the right of the victim, suspect, accused to reconciliation, the introduction of an appropriate addition to the criminal procedure norms governing the legal status of the named participants in criminal proceedings is considered.


Author(s):  
Svetlana Nikolaevna Vorobei

The research subject is the provisions of criminal law regulating the procedure of seizing electronic media and copying information. The article considers the problems faced by investigators connected with the seizure of electronic media during the investigation, copying the information they contain, and the related changes in the investigation practice caused by the introduction of article 164.1 into the Criminal Procedure Code. The purpose of the research is, based on the analysis of the Federal Law of December 27, 2018 No 533, which had amended the Criminal Procedure Law with the article 164.1 “The peculiarities of seizing electronic media and copying information they contain during investigative activities”, and law-enforcement practice in this field, to define the scope of the most urgent problems and develop the ways how to solve them. The research methodology is based on general scientific and specific research methods of cognition: the comparative-legal and formal-logical analysis, modeling, induction, deduction, etc. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the comprehensive and system-based study of the issues and problems of criminal legislation and law-enforcement practice connected with seizing electronic media and copying information they contain, and in the development of the key suggestions about amending the current legislation.   


2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Andrіy Shulha ◽  
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Tetyana Khailova ◽  

The article deals with the problem of specialist’s participation in the scene examination, which is carried out before entering information into the Unified Register of the pre-trial investigations. The essence of the problem is that the current criminal procedural law of Ukraine recognizes the specialist’s participation only in the pre-trial investigation, the litigation and the proceedings in the case of the commission of an unlawful act under the law of Ukraine on criminal liability. Part 1 of Article 71 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine states that a specialist in criminal proceedings is a person who has special knowledge and skills and can provide advice and conclusions during the pre-trial investigation and trial on issues that require appropriate special knowledge and skills. In other cases, the specialist has no procedural status. In addition, Part 1 of Article 237 of the CPC of Ukraine «Examination» states that the examination is conducted to identify and record information on the circumstances of the offense commitment. It is an act provided by the law of Ukraine on criminal liability. However, there are the cases in the investigation, when a report is received, for example, about a person's death, other events with formal signs of the offense, which must first be checked for signs of a crime, and only then the act can be considered as offense. In this case, a specialist takes part in the scene examination. However, the current criminal procedure law in accordance with Part 1, Article 71 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine determines the legal status of a specialist only as the participant in criminal proceedings. The paragraph 10, part 1 of Article 3 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine defines the criminal proceedings as pre-trial investigation and court proceedings or procedural actions in the case of the commission of an unlawful act. Therefore, when the inspection of the scene is based on the uncertain status of the event (there is no clear information that the event contains signs of an offense), the specialist’s participation is not regulated by law. The authors propose to consider the specialists as «experienced persons» in cases mentioned above and to include their advices to the protocol of the scene examination, as the advices of other scene examination participants.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 463
Author(s):  
NFN Ramiyanto

KUHAP sebagai hukum acara pidana yang bersifat umum tidak mengakui bukti elektronik sebagai salah satu jenis alat bukti yang sah. Di dalam praktik, bukti elektronik juga digunakan sebagai alat bukti yang sah untuk membuktikan tindak pidana yang terjadi di pengadilan. Dari hasil pembahasan dapat disimpulkan, bahwa bukti elektronik dalam hukum acara pidana berstatus sebagai alat bukti yang berdiri sendiri dan alat bukti yang tidak berdiri sendiri (pengganti bukti surat apabila memenuhi prinsip/dasar dalam functional equivalent approach dan perluasan bukti petunjuk) sebagaimana dicantumkan dalam beberapa undang-undang khusus dan instrumen hukum yang dikeluarkan oleh Mahkamah Agung. Walaupun bukti elektronik tidak diatur dalam KUHAP sebagai lex generalis, namun untuk tercapainya kebenaran materiil dapat juga digunakan sebagai alat bukti yang sah untuk pembuktian seluruh jenis tindak pidana di pengadilan. Hal itu didasarkan pada pengakuan dalam praktik peradilan pidana, beberapa undang-undang khusus, dan instrumen yang dikeluarkan oleh Mahkamah Agung.The Criminal Procedure Code as a general criminal procedure does not recognize electronic evidence as one of the admissible types of evidence. In practice, electronic evidence is also used as an admissible evidence to prove the criminal offenses in court. From the results of the discussion it can be concluded that electronic evidence in criminal procedure law is a dependent evidence and an independent evidence (substitution of letter proof if it meets the principle of functional equivalent approach and expansion of evidence) as specified in several special laws and instruments issued by the Supreme Court. The electronic evidence is not regulated in the Criminal Procedure Code as a lex generalis, however, to achieve material truth it can also be used as a valid evidence for the provision of all types of criminal offenses in court. It is based on recognition in the practice of criminal justice, some special laws, and instruments issued by the Supreme Court.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (80) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Marina Sumbarova

In this article author considers the questions connected with activity of the investigator at investigation of crimes, gives the characteristic of his procedural activity, defines his legal status in Latvian criminal procedure, characterizes important functions that this participant of criminal trial has. Along with consideration of a legal status of the investigator in criminal trial of Latvia, the analysis of the relevant procedural characteristics connected with investigation of criminal trials has determined the scientifically based directions in modern educational process of Latvia by training of specialists lawyers and, in particular, investigators. As a results of a research are given offers to change separate standards of the Criminal procedure law.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-69
Author(s):  
Diah Ratri Oktavriana ◽  
Nasiri Nasiri

This research is a normative research. One of the fulfillment of human rights is justice in equalizing the position of every citizen before the law, as stated in Article 27 paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. The right to equality before the law or what is commonly referred to as equality before the law is a principle that provides recognition and protection of human rights for every individual regardless of one's background. Therefore, it is true that Law Number 16 of 2011 concerning Legal Aid for People Who Are Less Capable to Guarantee Constitutional Rights of Citizens for Justice and Equality before the Law emerged. Legal aid is a legal service provided by advocates to the community seeking justice In the realm of criminal cases, the provision of legal assistance is described in Article 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code which explains that in the interests of defense, a suspect or defendant has the right to receive legal assistance from one or more legal advisers during the time and at each level of examination. The provision of legal assistance must be based on the principle of equality before the law as stated in the explanation of Law Number 8 of 1981 concerning Criminal Procedure Law. From the various analyzes that have been carried out, in the perspective of Islamic criminal law it can be concluded that the principle of equality before the law as described in Article 54 of the Criminal Procedure Code is equivalent to an order to provide legal aid which in Islamic criminal law is spelled out in Surah Al-Maidah verse 2 which states that as a fellow humans are ordered to help each other as a form of horizontal worship to fellow humans (habl minan-nas). In addition there are many more both in the Al Qur'an and the hadith of the prophet regarding the application of the principle of equality before the law.


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