ISSUES ON THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE AMENDMENT OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LEGISLATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA FROM 2011

2021 ◽  
pp. 321-332
Author(s):  
MILOŠ STAMENKOVIĆ

The issue of the development of criminal procedural law is an extremely broad and complex consideration, one that is difficult to cover in one study. In this paper, the author will deal with the development of criminal procedural legislation of the Republic of Serbia by 2011 in the first part. The current Criminal Procedure Code, with its most recent amendments from 2019, is still based precisely on the mentioned Code. The systematic presentation of the development of criminal procedural legislation in the Republic of Serbia has been burdened with both numerous changes in legislative sources and changes in the broader social context. The issue of state frameworks and the validity of the law, therefore, often requires a review of the broader territorial framework and an understanding of this social dynamic. If one considers the period of formation of the Kingdom of Serbs Croats and Slovenes in 1918, the basic feature of criminal procedural law implied the particular interests of individual states and separate procedural arrangements. Following the above, which is in a way an introductory part, the paper will address the most important changes to the current Criminal Procedure Code in relation to the 2011 Criminal Procedure Code. After the Criminal Procedure Code of 2001 was repealed, the new Criminal Procedure Code of 2011 came into force, which regulates several issues in a whole new way. Finally, special attention will be paid to the inconsistency of the Criminal Procedure Code of 2011 with the Constitution of the Republic of Serbia.

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.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Ariananto Waluyo Adi

The law recognizes both litigation and non-litigation settlement mechanisms, but it is almost not explicitly regulated for non-litigation settlement in criminal cases. Non-litigation in criminal recognizes the concept of restorative justice for the public interest, which is different from the private realm in civil. The concept of restorative justice exists to rehabilitate the state of criminals so that they are accepted back into the community. The concept of restorative justice is manifested in the mediation mechanism in criminal law in the form of penal mediation, but penal mediation does not yet have a legal umbrella. The non-progressive normative application of the law results in the overcapacity of prisons/remand centres. Currently, the Draft Criminal Procedure Code (hereinafter as RKUHAP) is being drafted, which does not yet regulate the application of non-litigation solutions. Later, it can be applied by law enforcement agencies so that problems such as overcapacity prisons are resolved and the creation of peaceful order in the community. This study aims to provide a view of the concept of penal mediation in criminal procedural law to serve as an aspiration for the consideration of the parties involved in the preparation of the substance of the RKUHAP. This paper uses a normative approach with technical analysis using hermeneutic analysis and interpretation methods.


Temida ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasa Mrvic-Petrovic

The author is particularly emphasizing peculiarities of the provision on community service as a main penalty (which is foreseen together with the fine and the prison). This solution requires not only the profound regulations in the Law on the execution of the criminal sanctions, but also a careful creation of the by-laws. In the paper, particular attention is paid to the new solutions in the Law on the execution of the criminal sanctions, which aim is to enable the implementation of the community service and the conditional sentence with the protective surveillance. The author states that previous changes of the Criminal Procedure Code, which introduced the principle of opportunity in prosecuting, made a basis for taking victim?s interests related to the redress more into account while starting the prosecution. However, the possibility of using the redress as a basis for the elimination/diversion of the criminal procedure is still not used in an appropriate way in the practice.


2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Abdul Mukmin Rehas

Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia Year 1945 which is the country's constitution has given recognition, guarantees, protection and legal certainty as well as equal treatment of all citizens before the law (equality before the law). In fact, the application of the principle of Equality Before The Law in Indonesia is still lacking. In the Code of Criminal Procedure (Criminal Procedure Code) only for the granting of legal aid free of charge only if the crime committed is punishable by imprisonment of 5 years or more, while if it is less than 5 years, while if the penalties are less than 5 years then the public will not get legal aid free of charge. The enactment of Law No. 16 of 2011 on the Legal Aid eliminating restrictions as stipulated in the Criminal Code, so that people can obtain legal assistance free of charge to the entire process of both the Criminal and Civil law for the sake of the implementation of the principle of Equality Before The Law.


2021 ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
V. Tishchenko ◽  
L. Belik ◽  
O. Samoilenko ◽  
Yu. Tishchenko

The article is devoted to the study of aspects of the essence and legal nature of forensic examination in criminal proceedings. It is analyzed the provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Forensic Examination”. The norms of the Criminal Procedure Code concerning the grounds for the appointment and conduct of forensic examination have been investigated. It has been established that many scientists in the field of civil procedural law, criminal procedural law, criminology and forensic examination paid attention to the legal content of the forensic examination. The nature of occurrence of forensic examination has been investigated. It has been established that at the legislative level, the term “forensic expert activity” is used only in the Law of Ukraine “On Forensic Examination”. In the specified normative legal act there is no clear definition of this concept, scientists through the analysis of some norms of law reveal its content. Regarding the definition of the concept of forensic examination, it has been established that there is no consensus in legal science. Regarding the definition of the concept of forensic examination, it has been established that there is no consensus in legal science. The article analyzes the criminal procedure form of appointing a forensic examination. Key words: forensic examination, criminal proceedings, forensic expert activity, forensic expertology, criminal procedural form.


2005 ◽  
Vol 77 (10) ◽  
pp. 531-547
Author(s):  
Momčilo Grubač

The new criminal and criminal "procedural law" entered into force in Bosnia and Herzegovina during 2003. They consist of the "state" and "entities" law. In the field of criminal procedure the "state" law is the Law on Criminal Procedure of Bosnia and Herzegovina (which entered into force on March 1. 2003) while the "entities" laws are Law on Criminal Procedure of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Law on Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Srpska (which entered into force on July 1. 2003) and Law on Criminal Procedure of the Brčko District of Bosnia and Herzegovina (which entered into force on August 1. 2003). The new laws contain great number of new, although not original procedural solutions and institutions. The most important novelty, introduced by these laws, relates to the new organization of the preliminary proceedings, which are not in the competence of the investigating judge any more but in the competence of the state prosecutor under the judicial control exercised by the judge in charge for the preliminary proceedings, or the judge in charge for preliminary hearings. The author mostly deals with this issue in this paper, but elaborates also on other important issues of the new law, and evaluates their justification and their value.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Desi Ratnasari ◽  
Sahuri Lasmadi ◽  
Elly Sudarti

This article aims to identify and analyze the legal implications and analyze the regulation of public interest as a condition for implementing deponeering by the Attorney General for the sake of the public interest in the perspective of the development of criminal procedural law. This research is a legal research, obtained from statutory studies (statute approach), concept (conceptual approach), cases. The result of this research is that there is discrimination against equality before the law contained in Article 27 Paragraph (1) of the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia and can trigger misinterpretation by the Attorney General. Then in its implementation there is no clear regulation regarding the application of the opportunity principle related to the authority of the attorney general in the implementation of case waiver (deponeering) for the public interest in the Criminal Procedure Code.  Abstrak Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisis implikasi hukum serta menganalisis terhadap regulasi kepentingan umum sebagai syarat pelaksanaan pengesampingan perkara (deponeering) oleh Jaksa Agung demi kepentingan umum dalam prespektif perkembangan hukum acara pidana.  Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian hukum, yang diperoleh dari studi perundang-undangan (statute approach), konsep (conceptual approach), kasus. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah adanya diskriminatif terhadap equality before the law yang terdapat dalam Pasal 27 Ayat (1) Undang-Undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945 dan dapat memicu salah tafsir oleh Jaksa Agung. Lalu di dalam pelaksanaannya belum terdapat regulasi yang jelas mengenai penerapan asas oportunitas yang berhubungan dengan kewenangan jaksa agung dalam pelaksanaan pengesampingan perkara (deponeering) demi kepentingan umum di dalam Kitab Undang-Undang Hukum acara Pidana (KUHAP). 


Author(s):  
Veljko Ikanović

The author deals with the new position of the injured party in criminal proceedings, persons who may refuse to testify and exceptions from the direct presentation of evidence due to the unavailability of witnesses after the amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code of Republika Srpska from 2021. Starting from the current regulation of this matter, pointing to the solutions in the comparative legislation, the analysis of these changes indicates the consequences of such inconsistent and in some institutes unnecessary and erroneous standardization of this sensitive matter. Attention is drawn to the contradiction between the decision on the privileged witness and juvenile legislation, which is in line with the conventions protecting their position, and the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. In that sense, the legislator is critically pointed out the shortcomings of certain solutions and suggests appropriate changes and additions in order to eliminate the problems that may arise during their practical application.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Naim Mëçalla

The Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Albania, as amended, came as an expression of the society's need for a more effective fight against criminality, a process that should go hand in hand with respect of the human rights and fundamental freedoms. This code, among other things, brought a new concept with regard to the possibility of applying special proceedings, as alternatives to the ordinary proceedings of investigation and judgment in the criminal cases. Thus, after nearly half a century, is reinstated in the Criminal Procedure Code, the special proceedings institute and for the first time in the history of the Albanian procedural law, an abbreviated trial, is foreseen as an alternative judgment. In this context, this paper gives an overview of the abbreviated trial, its legal meaning and the advantages it brings to the parties in particular and to the criminal process in general. The paper also contains a synthesized review of the abbreviated trial, under Albanian legislation and addresses some of the issues of judicial practice, as well as a brief presentation at a practical point of view of the abbreviated trialcases, answering some of the problems arising from the practice.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-25
Author(s):  
Ni Made Trisna Dewi,Reido Lardiza Fahrial

Abuse in the electronic transaction because it is formed from an electronic process, so the object changes, the goods become electronic data and the evidence is electronic.  Referring to the provisions of positive law in Indonesia, there are several laws and regulations that have set about electronic evidence as legal evidence before the court but there is still debate between the usefulness and function of the electronic evidence itself, from that background in  The following problems can be formulated, How do law enforcement from investigations, prosecutions to criminal case decisions in cybercrimes and How is the use of electronic evidence in criminal case investigations in cybercrimes This research uses normative research methods that are moving from the existence of norm conflicts between the Criminal Procedure Code and  ITE Law Number 19 Year 2016 in the use of evidence.  The law enforcement process of the investigator, the prosecution until the court's decision cannot run in accordance with the provisions of ITE Law Number 19 of 2016, because in interpreting the use of electronic evidence still refers to Article 184 paragraph (1) KUHAP of the Criminal Procedure Code stated that the evidence used  Legitimate are: witness statements, expert statements, letters, instructions and statements of the accused so that the application of the ITE Law cannot be applied effectively The conclusion of this research is that law enforcement using electronic evidence in cyber crime cannot stand alone because the application of the Act  - ITE Law Number 19 Year 2016 still refers to the Criminal Code so that the evidence that is clear before the trial still refers to article 184 paragraph (1) KUHAP of the Criminal Procedure Code and the strength of proof of electronic evidence depends on the law enforcement agencies interpreting it because all electronic evidence is classified into  in evidence in the form of objects as  so there is a need for confidence from the legal apparatus in order to determine the position and truth of the electronic evidence.   Penyalahgunaan didalam transaksi elektronik tersebut karena terbentuk dari suatu proses elektronik, sehingga objeknya pun berubah, barang menjadi data elektronik dan alat buktinya pun bersifat elektronik. Mengacu pada ketentuan hukum positif di Indonesia, ada beberapa peraturan perundang-undangan yang telah mengatur mengenai alat bukti elektronik sebagai alat bukti yang sah di muka pengadilan tetapi tetap masih ada perdebatan antara kegunaan dan fungsi dari alat bukti elektronik itu sendiri, dari latar belakang tersebut di atas dapat dirumuskan masalah sebagai berikut, Bagaimana penegakkan hukum dari penyidikan, penuntutan sampai putusan perkara pidana dalam kejahatan cyber dan Bagaimanakah penggunaan bukti elektronik dalam pemeriksaan perkara pidana dalam kejahatan cyber Penelitian ini menggunakan metode penelitian normatif yakni beranjak dari adanya konflik norma antara KUHAP dengan Undang-undang ITE Nomor 19 Tahun 2016 dalam penggunaan alat bukti. Proses penegakkan hukum dari penyidik, penuntutan sampai pada putusan pengadilan tidak dapat berjalan sesuai dengan ketentuan Undang-undang ITE Nomor 19 Tahun 2016, karena dalam melakukan penafsiran terhadap penggunaan alat bukti Elektronik masih mengacu pada Pasal 184 ayat (1) KUHAP disebutkan bahwa alat bukti yang sah adalah: keterangan saksi, keterangan ahli, surat, petunjuk dan keterangan terdakwa. sehingga penerapan Undang-undang ITE tidak dapat diterapkan secara efektiv. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah penegakan hukum dengan menggunakan alat bukti elektronik dalam kejahatan cyber tidak bisa berdiri sendiri karena penerapan Undang-Undang ITE Nomor 19 Tahun 2016 tetap merujuk kepada KUHP sehingga alat bukti yang sah di muka persidangan tetap mengacu pada pasal 184 ayat (1) KUHAP dan Kekuatan pembuktian alat bukti elektronik tersebut tergantung dari aparat hukum dalam menafsirkannya karena semua alat bukti elektronik tersebut digolongkan ke dalam alat bukti berupa benda sebagai petunjuk sehingga diperlukan juga keyakinan dari aparat hukum agar bisa menentukan posisi dan kebenaran dari alat bukti elektronik tersebut.


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