scholarly journals THE RIGHT TO FAIR TRIAL AS THE SUBJECT OF A LEGAL MECHANISM FOR ENSURING THE RIGHTS OF PARTICIPANTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS IN CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 166-169
Author(s):  
M.S. Ivanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fair Trial ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Mechanism

scholarly journals INSTITUTE OF EXCLUSION FROM EVIDENCE AT THE STAGE OF PRE-TRIAL INVESTIGATION: CURRENT PROBLEMS AND WAYS TO SOLVE THEM

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
S. Prylutskyi
Keyword(s):  
Self Control ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Legal Nature ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Legal Mechanism ◽  
Illegal Evidence ◽  
Factual Data

The study focuses on both theoretical and applied aspects of evidentiary law. The subject of this study is the legal institution of admissibility of evidence in criminal proceedings, as well as the legal mechanism for declaring evidence inadmissible. The author relies on the constitutional postulate (Part 3 of Article 62 of the Constitution of Ukraine) according to which the accusation cannot be based on evidence obtained illegally, as well as on assumptions. Based on this constitutional imperative, it is stated that the prosecution has no right to form charges and go to court if the accusation is based on illegal evidence or subjective assumptions, and emphasizes that the subject who forms the prosecution must operate on legal evidence. Thus, a legal contradiction is revealed between the provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine and Part 2 of Article 23 of the CPC of Ukraine regarding the legal nature of evidence in the pre-trial investigation. Given that according to the domestic legal structure, factual data must be recognized as evidence at the stage of pre-trial investigation, there is a legal need to guarantee the right of a person to a fair trial, the introduction of a clear mechanism for verifying factual data for admissibility at the stage of pre-trial investigation. The author argues that such a mechanism should provide effective tools for self-control and neutralization of illegal sources of factual data by both the prosecuting authorities and the court, during the implementation of judicial control over pre-trial investigation in making key decisions to restrict guaranteed rights and freedoms. Keywords: evidence, accusation, suspicion, admissibility of evidence, exclusion from evidence.

Does the Injunction Gap Violate Implementers’ Fair Trial Rights Under the ECHR?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Léon E Dijkman
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The Past ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Federal Supreme ◽  
Validity Of A Patent

Abstract Germany is one of few jurisdictions with a bifurcated patent system, under which infringement and validity of a patent are established in separate proceedings. Because validity proceedings normally take longer to conclude, it can occur that remedies for infringement are imposed before a decision on the patent’s validity is available. This phenomenon is colloquially known as the ‘injunction gap’ and has been the subject of increasing criticism over the past years. In this article, I examine the injunction gap from the perspective of the right to a fair trial enshrined in Art. 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. I find that the case law of the European Court of Human Rights interpreting this provision supports criticism of the injunction gap, because imposing infringement remedies with potentially far-reaching consequences before the validity of a patent has been established by a court of law arguably violates defendants’ right to be heard. Such reliance on the patent office’s grant decision is no longer warranted in the light of contemporary invalidation rates. I conclude that the proliferation of the injunction gap should be curbed by an approach to a stay of proceedings which is in line with the test for stays as formulated by Germany’s Federal Supreme Court. Under this test, courts should stay infringement proceedings until the Federal Patent Court or the EPO’s Board of Appeal have ruled on the validity of a patent whenever it is more likely than not that it will be invalidated.

scholarly journals Reasonable time frame in bankruptcy proceedings: Analysis of cases from the judicial practice of the Commercial Court in Niš

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (90) ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Mojašević ◽  
Aleksandar Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Case Law ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Reasonable Time ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Reasonable Time Frame ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right

The Act on the Protection of the Right to a Trial within a Reasonable Time, which took effect in 2016, has created the conditions in our legal system for the protection of the right to a trial within a reasonable time, as one of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia and related international documents. Although the legislator does not explicitly provide for the application of this Act in the context of bankruptcy proceedings, it has been used in judicial practice as a mean for the bankruptcy creditors to obtain just satisfaction in cases involving lengthy bankruptcy proceedings and a violation of the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time. The subject matter of analysis in this paper is the right to a trial within a reasonable time in bankruptcy cases. For that purpose, the authors examine the case law of the Commercial Court in Niš in the period from the beginning of 2016 to the end of 2019, particularly focusing on the bankruptcy cases in which complaints (objections) were filed for the protection of the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time. The aim of the research is to examine whether the objection, as an initial act, is a suitable instrument for increasing the efficiency of the bankruptcy proceeding, or whether it only serves to satisfy the interests of creditors. The authors have also examined whether this remedy affects the overall costs and duration of the bankruptcy proceeding. The main finding is that there is an increasing number of objections in the Commercial Court in Niš, which still does not affect the length and costs of bankruptcy. This trend is not only the result of inactivity of the court and the complexity of certain cases but also of numerous external factors, the most prominent of which is the work of some state bodies.

scholarly journals THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL IN PROCEEDINGS CHALLENGING THE MINUTES OF DISPUTING CONTRAVENTIONS

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana-Florina Bălăşoiu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Right

The offenses field is assimilated to the criminal one from the perspective of theEuropean Court of Human Rights, in the sense of article 6 of the Convention, the personaccused of committing an act regarded in national law as an offense must benefit from theguarantees specific to criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals Guilty of using Google: Reconciling the right to a fair trial with the right to freedom of expression and addressing juror misconduct in the age of social media

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Emma Jane Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Independent Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

<p>It is widely accepted that the right to a fair trial is one of the most important guarantees contained within our legal system. That right is undermined when a jury member conducts his or her own research into a case. This type of juror misconduct constitutes contempt of court. In the light of the fact that the law of contempt is currently the subject of review in a number of jurisdictions, this paper considers how the law of contempt could be adapted to better manage the risk of jurors undertaking independent research. After a discussion of the current law and some problems with it, particularly those created by modern communications technology, this paper considers a number of possible reform options. It makes two broad recommendations. First, that the law should focus relatively more on preventing jurors undertaking their own research than on limiting publication. Second, that independent research by jurors should be the subject of statutory criminalisation, and a range of measures should be adopted to increase jurors’ understanding of the importance of not going outside the evidence before them and to minimize any incentives for jurors to conduct their own research.</p>

4. The course of the trial

Evidence ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 140-200
Author(s):  
Roderick Munday
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Trial Judge ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

Titles in the Core Text series take the reader straight to the heart of the subject, providing focused, concise, and reliable guides for students at all levels. This chapter discusses the following: the right to begin; the role of the trial judge; the judge’s right to call a witness; examination-in-chief; hostile witnesses; cross-examination; re-examination; calling evidence relating to witnesses’ veracity; witness support; the Crown’s right to reopen its case; and special protections extended to various classes of witness in criminal cases. Many of the rules apply to civil and criminal proceedings alike. However, as elsewhere in this book, the accent will be on rules of criminal evidence.

scholarly journals EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL IN CASES RELATED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Golovko ◽  
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Viktor Ladychenko ◽  
Olena Gulaс ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Functional Method ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Court Decisions ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Right

The purpose of the article is to investigate the effectiveness of Ukrainian legislation in the fieldof combating domestic violence, as well as the implementation of the right to a fair trial in casesinvolving domestic violence. The following methods were used in the study: analysis and synthesis,system-functional method, comparative method. Results. The article analyzes the legislation ofUkraine in the field of prevention and counteraction to domestic violence, lists both its advantagesand disadvantages, reveals measures in the field of prevention and counteraction to domesticviolence, responsibility for domestic violence, the main directions of state policy in the field ofprevention and counteraction to domestic violence, types of domestic violence. Legal regulation of judicial protection for victims of domestic violence has been studied. Judicial practice in casesrelated to domestic violence was considered. Problems of exercising the right to a fair trial inUkraine in cases related to domestic violence were revealed. Conclusions. Undoubtedly, theadoption of the Law of Ukraine “On Prevention and Counteraction to Domestic Violence”, theintroduction of criminal liability for domestic violence and amendments to a number of regulationsto address domestic violence is a positive step in combating such a negative phenomenon asdomestic violence. At the same time, a significant number of issues remain unresolved. This isespecially true for the resolution of cases of domestic violence and the exercise of the right to afair trial in cases of domestic violence, as well as for the enforcement of court decisions on theissuance of restrictive orders. The need to develop a form for assessing the risks of recurrenceof domestic violence has been demonstrated, as has been done for police officers during theessessment of the need to issue an emergency injunction. The need to enshrine at the legislativelevel what is the preventive work of police officers with the offender and how it is carried outwas proved, because without proper regulation of this issue, this type of special measure tocombat domestic violence is declarative and not applied in practice. In addition, the problem ofrefusal of public and private executive services to enforce court decisions on the establishmentof restrictive measures is pointed out, which also requires legislative regulation. The need tostrengthen the position of the victim of domestic violence by giving her/him the opportunity toclaim compensation for non-pecuniary damage in criminal proceedings was noted.

scholarly journals The right to a fair trial: conceptual rethinking in an era of quarantine restrictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (38) ◽  
pp. 168-177
Author(s):  
Boris Perezhniak ◽  
Dariia Balobanova ◽  
Liliia Timofieieva ◽  
Olena Tavlui ◽  
Yuliia Poliuk
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cybernetic Method ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right

One of the most important places among the universally recognized rights is the right to a fair trial. The essence of this right is that any violated right can be restored through a particular procedure. In the absence of an effective method for the protection of rights and interests, the rights and freedoms recognized and enshrined in law are only declarative provisions. Given the significant role of the right to a fair trial and changes in its provision under quarantine restrictions, it is necessary to analyze the content of this right, highlight principal requirements and problematic aspects of implementation given the current conditions of social relations. The purpose of the work is to analyze the content of the right to a fair trial. The subject of the study is the social relations that arise, change, and terminate during the exercise of the right to a fair trial. The research methodology includes such methods as a statistical-mathematical method, method of social-legal experiment, cybernetic method, comparative-legal method, formal-legal method, logical-legal method, and method of alternatives. The study will analyze the content of the right to a fair trial as international law and national law, its impact and interaction with the national legal system of Ukraine, which includes theoretical, applied, and common law aspects and conceptual rethinking in an era of quarantine restrictions.

The Right to a Fair Trial in International Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clooney Amal ◽  
Webb Philippa
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The World ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Right

This book brings together the diverse sources of international law that define the right to a fair trial in the context of criminal proceedings. It aims to make the law accessible to counsel and meaningful to victims in courtrooms all over the world. By focusing on what the right to a fair trial means in practice, it seeks to bring to life the commitment made by over 170 states parties to the ICCPR. The book is subdivided into 14 substantive chapters each dealing with one component of the right to a fair trial. Each chapter collates and analyses international sources, highlighting both consensus and division in the international jurisprudence. The book aims to be the global reference for the most frequently litigated human right in the world.

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