scholarly journals Delimitation of insolvency offenses from other related criminal/non-criminal acts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Ursu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Scientific Study

This article aims to clarify the aspects of criminal liability for insolvency offenses, from the point of view of their delimitation from other related acts. In order to achieve the mentioned purpose, the author identified certain prejudicial actions that could have the capacity to create confusions as an effect of their similarity to the crimes provided for in art. 252 and 253 Penal Code of the RM, and the analysis of the comparative elements is necessary in order to establish their correlation and delimitation. Following the scientific study undertaken, some qualification rules were formulated taking into account the specifics of criminal acts of insolvency-related offenses, being developed and proposed for application some certain explanatory guidelines concerning the analyzed criminal facts.

Criminal law assessment of spanking

2021 ◽  
Vol 2(24) ◽  
pp. 239-253
Author(s):  
Michał Grudecki
Keyword(s):  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Educational Method

The article is devoted to the issue of the criminal law assessment of spanking. Spank, despite the prohibition of corporal punishment introduced into the Polish legal system over 10 years ago, is still an acceptable behavior among part of the socjety. Taking into account the positions of opponents and supporters of this educational method, as well as the norms of criminal law, it is necessary to answer the question whether the guardians who apply it will bear unconditional criminal liability. Giving this answer requires an analysis of the spanking behavior from the perspective of the crime model. The behavior of the spanker fulfills the features of the prohibited act under Article 217 of the Penal Code, but in some cases it may not be shameful (Article 1 § 2 of the Penal Code) or the perpetrator cannot be blamed (art. 1 § 3 of the Penal Code). The author also assesses spanking from the point of view of non statuory justification punishing minors and takes a stance on the admissibility of using non-statutory justifications.

NOWE WYSTĘPKI LICHWY (ART. 304 § 2 I 3 K.K.) W PERSPEKTYWIE FUNKCJI GWARANCYJNEJ PRAWA KARNEGO

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-41
Author(s):  
Magdalena Błaszczyk
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Point Of Reference ◽  
Interest Costs

The paper offers an analysis of new provisions of Article 304 § 2 and 3 of the Polish Penal Code, which define two specific types of the offence of usury. These provisions are intended to protect consumers against excessive financial burden – the interest (§ 3) and non-interest costs (§ 2) – included in the loan they incur. The author examines them critically, taking as a point of reference the guarantee standards of criminal liability resulting from the Constitution. The author performs a “quality control”, which amounts to a dogmatic analysis of the statutory features of new usury offences, which means a kind of quality control of their definitions and verification of the necessity to cover the described behaviours by the sanctioning norms.

scholarly journals Criminal Liability and Crime and Punishment Proportionality in the Crime of Legal Entities

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Samira Soltani ◽  
Ahmad Ramazani
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Legal Person ◽  
The Public ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Economic Exclusion ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Legal Entities ◽  
The Way

One of the innovations of Islamic Penal Code in 2013 was to accept criminal liability of legal entities. By accepting criminal liability of legal entities, the way to punish them is arisen. As a legal person cannot commit any crime, any punishments are not applicable to them. Accordingly, Article 20 of this Law enumerated a list of penalties applicable to legal persons and it was tried to use penalties in accordance with the legal entities to deal with them. Punishments such as dissolution, confiscation, cash fine, announcement of the judgment, Diyeh, social and economic exclusion; such as a ban on business activities, prohibition of the public invitation to raise capital and ban from drawing business documents listed in Article 20 and Article 14, are a set of punishments which relatively different from usual punishment for individuals. These penalties are relative diversity, but what is objectionable is that the details and conditions of implementation of each of these punishments are not clear. If legislator described the details exactly or provided the condition to require the adoption of The Executive Bylaw of the punishment, it would be better. Given that all the points and issues about penalties for legal persons are not stated in this law as well as ambiguities in the law for a comprehensive definition of legal person, the way to implement main and supplementary punishments, In this study it was tried to evaluate and criticize the legal entities penalties including main and supplementary ones and their grading.

scholarly journals IMAGE-CREATED MEDIA INSTRUMENTS IN THE STATE IMAGE FORMATION

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veronika Chekalyk
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Mass Consciousness ◽  
Public Persona ◽  
The World ◽  
Image Creation ◽  
Information Materials ◽  
Image Integrity

The article represents the following aspects: the main principles of national mass media activity, the methods of image creation of a state, the analyses of interrelation in image creation of a state and mass media. This scientific study intends to provide professional analysis of the article’s author as an image-maker as well as assessmentfeedback from the point of view of a media psychological readiness to accept a public persona offered by image-makers. This text proposes the several methods how to create image and how to define the terms. The author treats a state image as an internal and external image of a country, which is formed and fixed in mass consciousness of citizens under influence of mass media, distinguished by men and economical, political, ecological as well as others factors. This article is devoted to the study of state image of Ukraine; press about the state image; integrity and incompatibility perception of information materials of Ukraine by the world society. The image, shown in press, is made by image carrier and information audience.

scholarly journals Społeczna szkodliwość — dziedzictwo komunizmu w polskim prawie karnym?

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-179
Author(s):  
Wojciech Zalewski
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Harmfulness ◽  
Second World

The introduction of social harmfulness (social danger) to Polish criminal law after the Second World War was politically motivated. For many, this circumstance was sufficient to formulate postulates about the necessity to remove this premise of criminal liability. Social harmfulness still remains controversial today. Before, criminal law was seen as a tool. Currently, it is to be an ultima ratio. It is clear that determining the essence of the crime and its nature, introducing into the law “what belongs to literature”, was necessary in the legal system of a totalitarian state, imposing its views and morals on society. In a legal system of a democratic state, a state ruled by law, a statutory ideological declaration regarding the essence of a crime seems redundant. However, changing the nomenclature is not enough here — there is a possibility of weakening the guaranteeing criminal law function. The social harmfulness premise contributes to the heterogeneity of jurisprudence, even in cases concerning serious crimes. The author is of the opinion that limiting the number of minor cases from the point of view of the state’s right to punish, which paralyzes the judiciary with their sheer number, should take place in a different way than introducing the social harmfulness of an act as a criterion determining the culpability. The currently adopted solution seems irrational and non-functional from the perspective of the legal certainty principle. A more appropriate move seems to be the assessing the advisability of prosecuting an act, i.e. by introducing and implementing the principle of opportunism in criminal proceedings.

scholarly journals The History of the Development of the French Laws on Criminal Liability of Legal Entities

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 46-56
Author(s):  
Aleksandr V. Fedorov ◽  
◽  
Mikhail V. Krichevtsev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Criminal Prosecution ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Legal Entities

The article reviews the history of development of French laws on criminal liability of legal entities. The authors note that the institution of criminal liability of legal entities (collective criminal liability) dates back to the ancient times and has been forming in the French territory for a long time. Initially, it was established in the acts on collective liability residents of certain territories, in particular, in the laws of the Salian Franks. This institution was inherited from the Franks by the law of the medieval France, and got transferred from the medieval period to the French criminal law of the modern period. The article reviews the laws of King Louis XIV as an example of establishment of collective criminal liability: the Criminal Ordinance of 1670 and the Ordinances on Combating Vagrancy and Goods Smuggling of 1706 and 1711. For the first time ever, one can study the Russian translation of the collective criminal liability provisions of the said laws. The authors state that although the legal traditions of collective liability establishment were interrupted by the transformations caused by the French Revolution of 1789 to 1794, criminal liability of legal entities remained in Article 428 of the French Penal Code of 1810 as a remnant of the past and was abolished only as late as in 1957. The publication draws attention to the fact that the criminal law codification process was not finished in France, and some laws stipulating criminal liability of legal entities were in effect in addition to the French Penal Code of 1810: the Law on the Separation of Church and State of December 9, 1905; the Law of January 14, 1933; the Law on Maritime Trade of July 19, 1934; the Ordinance on Criminal Prosecution of the Press Institutions Cooperating with Enemies during World War II of May 5, 1945. The authors describe the role of the Nuremberg Trials and the documents of the Council of Europe in the establishment of the French laws on criminal liability of legal entities, in particular, Resolution (77) 28 On the Contribution of Criminal Law to the Protection of the Environment, Recommendation No. R (81) 12 On Economic Crime, the Recommendation No. R (82) 15 On the Role of Criminal Law in Consumer Protection and Recommendation No. (88) 18 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States Concerning Liability of Enterprises Having Legal Personality for Offences Committed in the Exercise of Their Activities. The authors conclude that the introduction of the institution of criminal liability of legal entities is based on objective conditions and that research of the history of establishment of the laws on collective liability is of great importance for understanding of the modern legal regulation of the issues of criminal liability of legal entities.

THE DELIMITATION OF RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PRESIDENT OF POLAND WITH RESPECT TO ITS CONSTITUTIONALIZATION – SELECTED PROBLEMS

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (XXI) ◽  
pp. 15-26
Author(s):  
Olgierd Abramski
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Protective Role ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Constitutional Level ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
Head Of State ◽  
Legal Foundations

The legal foundations of the responsibility of the head of state are significant from the point of view of determining its political position and exercising administrative social control over the institution of the state. The mechanisms of institutionalizing the President’s responsibility established in Poland generally fulfill a protective role, but do not fully achieve the control and guarantee function for a democratic state of law. The structure of the constitutional and criminal liability of the Speaker of the Sejm or Senate, performing, pro tempore, the duties of the head of state, and the scope of the President’s responsibility partially have not been regulated at the constitutional level. These are controversial solutions from the standpoint of the hierarchy of norms and social practice

Protocol and misusing its name

2016 ◽  
Vol 291 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Józef Gurgul
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Forensic Pathologist ◽  
External Inspection

This article addresses the criteria that are decisive in determining whether a given document can be referred to as Protocol within the meaning of the provisions of Chapter 16 of the Penal Code. From this point of view, the two-staged medico-legal postmortem inspection, consisting of an external inspection and autopsy (opening of the corpse) can be de lege lata documented by drawing up a medico-legal report, which is not considered a Protocol. The autopsy, artificially separated from an inspection (cf. Art. 209, par. 4 of the Penal codc), is carried out “in the presence” of a prosecutor, not under his supervision or with participation, by a forensic pathologist who is not authorized to draw up a Protocol. In the light of the above, Art. 209, par. 4 of the Penal Code should be amended for the sake of truth and justice.

The unpredictability of behaviour in traffic. Some reflections

2015 ◽  
Vol 288 ◽  
pp. 108-112
Author(s):  
Kazimierz J. Pawelec
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Traffic Accident ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Expert Witnesses ◽  
Rules Set ◽  
Formal Point ◽  
General Standard ◽  
Safety Rules

A traffic accident is an unpredictable event, although it may be committed as a result of non-compliance with safety rules, i.e. the general standard specified in Art. 177 & 1 of the Penal Code, or the detailed rules set out in the Law on Road Traffic. Its important cause can also be absolutely unpredictable, deviating from the model behaviour of participants of traffic. They can mislead on another, which from a formal point of view is chargeable, for example, not yielding priority, cutting off traffic, failure to comply with particular caution when approaching the designated crossing points or other dangerous places. Rating non-model, misleading behaviour, repeatedly escapes the attention of law enforcement or the courts. A large part in this is also shared by expert witnesses in traffic and automobile technology, who in their opinions carry out legal assessments, especially the opportunities and obligations. This is an issue strictly dogmatic, not belonging to their competence.

The Necessity Plea in English Criminal Law

1972 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. R. Glazebrook
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Striking Feature ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
English Law ◽  
Prevention Of Crime

The sharp contrast between the vast number of detailed statutory provisions defining particular offences and the small handful of widely phrased provisions concerned with the general principles of criminal liability is, perhaps, the most striking feature of English criminal law, and, like the continued co-existence of both common law and statutory offences, one of the unhappy consequences of England's failure to enact a penal code. Among the few statutory provisions laying down general principles of liability or excuse there is none which comprehends a defence of necessity, and so commentators have inevitably looked to the case law for an answer to the question: Is there in English criminal law a defence of necessity? by which they have meant: Is there a defence of necessity in the sense in which there is a defence of, for instance, insanity, or infancy, or duress or prevention of crime? To the question understood in that sense, the answer returned must, it is thought, be a plain No. To ask and to answer the question in that sense may, however, be misleading: it may be more revealing (as this paper suggests) to ask, How does English law handle the plea of necessity when it arises? What, in other words, is the juristic technique employed?

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