scholarly journals Theft of electricity as a specific criminal offence

2005 ◽  
Vol 77 (10) ◽  
pp. 427-442
Author(s):  
Vesna Stojković

The level of unauthorized (illegal) consumption of electricity (theft of electricity) has seriously increased on the state territory of Serbia and Montenegro. A crucial step in the struggle against the theft of electricity would be to bring charges against the offender of this crime. The statutory provisions offer offender mechanisms of repression but unfortunately in practice court judgments are very mils. Usually, those are the suspended sentences or minor financial punishments so that the offenders are practically more encouraged than sentenced. In our opinion it is necessary to change the court practice and to introduce severe punishment for this kind of crime.

2020 ◽  
pp. 401-442
Author(s):  
Милан Гулић

Када су крајем 1915. и почетком 1916. окупиране српске краљевине Србија и Црна Гора, преостала српска војска нашла се на територији Грчке. Уз помоћ савезника је опорављена, опремљена и реорганизована, а затим пребачена на Солунски фронт у првој половини 1916. С обзиром на то да је државна територија била окупирана, једини извор њеног попуњавања постали су добровољци. Онима који су се са српском војском повукли преко Албаније придружили су се хиљаде нових, који су пристизали са Источног фронта, из Сјеверне Америке, а у мањем броју из других дијелова свијета. Кроз рад пратимо три војне формације српске војске које су у потпуности или у значајној мјери биле састављене од добровољаца, како грађана Србије, који из различитих разлога нису подлегали војној обавези, тако и од страних држављана, махом српске националности, који су се ставили на расположење Србији. Чланак је заснован на објављеним и необјављеним документима, стручној литератури и мемоарским дјелима. When in late 1915 and early 1916 the Serbian kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro were occupied, the remaining Serbian army was in the territory of Greece. With the Allies’ help, the army recovered, was equipped and re-organised, and transferred to the Salonika Front in the first half of 1916. As the state territory was occupied, volunteers became the only source for replenishing the army. Those who withdrew through Albania together with the Serbian army were joined by thousands of new soldiers, arriving from the Eastern Front, North America and, in smaller numbers, from other parts of the world. In this paper, we follow three military formations of the Serbian army entirely or significantly consisting of volunteers, both Serbian nationals, who were not conscripts for different reasons, and foreign nationals, mainly of Serbian ethnicity, who put themselves at the service of Serbia. The paper is based on published and unpublished documents, professional literature and memoirs.


2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 358
Author(s):  
Usmawadi Usmawadi

Salah satu unsur terpenting bagi suatu negara sebagai subjek hukum internasional adalah unsur wilayah, seperti yang dinyatakan oleh O'Connell; Without territory a legal person can not a state, yaitu tanpa wilayah suatu pribadi hukum tidak dapat menjadi suatu negara. Juga Ian Brownlie, menyatakan: The state territory and its appurtenances (airspace and territorial sea), togetherwith the government and population within its frontier, comprise the physical and social manisfestation of the primary type of international legal person, the state.


Temida ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 431-451
Author(s):  
Ana Batricevic

Misogynous and sexist violence against women, which often results in death, represents a global problem. Numerous international and national legal instruments are dedicated to the prevention and sanctioning of violence against women. However, the reality implies that existing mechanisms of penal reaction to femicide, as its most extreme and brutal form, should be re-examined. Having in mind the frequency and severe consequences of this criminal offence and the discriminatory character of the message that the state sends by tolerating it or inadequately punishing its perpetrators, the author attempts to define femicide, to present basic forms of state reaction to femicide in comparative law as well as to analyze the features of femicide as an independent criminal offence. Arguing for the incrimination of femicide as an independent criminal offence, or as a special form of aggravated murder, the author points out that such solution could contribute to more precise observation of this form of crime, to a better estimation of the quality of the state? s reaction to it and to its more efficient suppression.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Dardan Vuniqi

State is society’s need for the existence of an organized power, equipped with the right equipments of coercion and able to run the society, by imposing the choices that seem reasonable to them, through legal norms. State is an organization of state power; it is an organized power which imposes its will to all the society and has a whole mechanism to execute this will. The state realizes its functions through power, which is a mechanism to accomplish its relevant functions. The power’s concept is a social concept, which can be understood only as a relation between two subjects, between two wills. Power is the ability to impose an order, a rule and other’s behavior in case that he doesn’t apply voluntary the relevant norm, respectively the right. Using state power is related to creation and application, respectively the implementation of law. To understand state power better, we have to start from its overall character. So, we notice that in practice we encounter different kinds of powers: the family’s one, the school’s one, the health’s one, the religion’s, culture’s etc. The notion of powers can be understood as a report between two subjects, two wills. Power is an order for other’s behavior. Every power is some kind of liability, dependence from others. In the legal aspect, supremacy of state presents the constitutive – legislative form upon the powers that follow after it. Supremacy, respectively the prevalence, is stronger upon other powers in its territory. For example we take the highest state body, the parliament as a legislative body, where all other powers that come after it, like the executive and court’s one, are dependable on state’s central power. We can’t avoid the carriage of state’s sovereignty in the competences of different international organizations. Republic, based on ratified agreements for certain cases can overstep state’s power on international organizations. The people legitimate power and its bodies, by giving their votes for a mandate of governance (people’s verdict). It is true that we understand people’s sovereignty only as a quality of people, where with the word people we understand the entirety of citizens that live in a state. The sovereignty’s case actualizes especially to prove people’s right for self-determination until the disconnection that can be seen as national – state sovereignty. National sovereignty is the right of a nation for self-determination. Sovereignty’s cease happens when the monopoly of physical strength ceases as well, and this monopoly is won by another organization. A state can be ceased with the voluntary union of two or more states in a mutual state, or a state can be ceased from a federative state, where federal units win their independence. In this context we have to do with former USSR’s units, separated in some independent states, like Czechoslovakia unit that was separated in two independent states: in Czech Republic and Slovakia. Former Yugoslavia was separated from eight federal units, today from these federal units seven of them have won their independence and their international recognition, and the Republic of Kosovo is one amongst them. Every state power’s activity has legal effect inside the borders of a certain territory and inside this territory the people come under the relevant state’s power. Territorial expansion of state power is three dimensional. The first dimension includes the land inside a state’s borders, the second dimension includes the airspace upon the land and the third dimension includes water space. The airspace upon inside territorial waters is also a power upon people and the power is not universal, meaning that it doesn’t include all mankind. State territory is the space that’s under state’s sovereignty. It is an essential element for its existence. According to the author Juaraj Andrassy, state territory lies in land and water space inside the borders, land and water under this space and the air upon it. Coastal waters and air are considered as parts that belong to land area, because in every case they share her destiny. Exceptionally, according to the international right or international treaties, it is possible that in one certain state’s territory another state’s power can be used. In this case we have to do with the extraterritoriality of state power. The state extraterritoriality’s institute is connected to the concept of another state’s territory, where we have to do with diplomatic representatives of a foreign country, where in the buildings of these diplomatic representatives, the power of the current state is not used. These buildings, according to the international right, the diplomatic right, have territorial immunity and the relevant host state bodies don’t have any power. Regarding to inviolability, respectively within this case, we have two groups to mention: the real immunity and the personal immunity, which are connected with the extraterritoriality’s institute. Key words: Independence, Sovereignty, Preponderance, Prevalence, Territorial Expansion.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Moni Wekesa ◽  
Martin Awori

The general position of the law on euthanasia worldwide is that all states recognise their duty to preserve life. Courts in various jurisdictions have refused to interpret the 'right to life' or the 'right to dignity' to also include the 'right to die'. Instead, they have held that the state has a duty to protect life. Three categories can however be noted. At one extreme are those countries that have totally criminalised any appearance of euthanasia. In the middle are countries that prohibit what appears to be active euthanasia while at the same time tolerating 'dual-effect' treatment and withdrawal of artificial feeding. At the other extreme are countries that allow euthanasia. Even in this last category of countries, there are stringent guidelines embedded in the law to prevent a situation of 'free for all'. Anecdotal evidence, some empirical studies and case law seem to suggest that euthanasia goes on in many countries irrespective of the law. Euthanasia is a criminal offence in Kenya. However, there have been no empirical studies to ascertain whether euthanasia goes on in spite of the law. This article surveys the current state of the practice of euthanasia globally and narrows down to elaborate on the state of affairs in Kenya.


2010 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 845-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin E Brockman-Hawe

What happens when a European State breaches its international obligations and then ceases to exist? Does its obligation to repair the harm caused by the breach devolve to a new state that occupies part of the territory of an old state? When will a new European State be held accountable for violations that took place before the entry into force of a human rights treaty? This comment examines the European Court of Human Rights' (hereinafter ‘the Court’ or ‘the ECtHR’) encounter with the law of state succession, specifically succession to treaty obligations and succession to responsibility for the wrongful acts of a predecessor state. In Bijelic v Montenegro and Serbia the Court held that Montenegro was to be automatically regarded as a party to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (hereinafter ‘the Convention’), as well as Protocol No 1 thereto, from the date of its declaration of independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro (hereinafter ‘the State Union’), and that Montenegro alone could be held responsible for violations of these instruments occurring in the territory of the State Union that began before March 2004 (the date of ratification of the Convention and Protocol 1 by the State Union) but continuing through 2009. Bijelic is not the first time the Court has been called upon to decide a question of succession to treaty obligations or responsibility, but the judgment is noteworthy for the unique approach the Court adopted to deciding both of these issues. This comment will place the decision in the larger context of Court practice with respect to both of the implicated succession issues, identify the aspects the Trial Chamber's analysis that distinguish it from its predecessors and discuss the decision of the Court in light of general and emerging trends in international law. In the process, this comment will provide a uniquely thorough examination of ECtHR practice with respect to succession to responsibility and identify the trends, to the extent that such trends exist, that characterize the Court's approach to this area of law.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Silmiwati Silmiwati

The sovereignty is the highest authority owned by the state. In the sovereignty decided contained matter relating with the power and responsibility for the state territory. The state have a responsibility to own territory and that state has the power to be competent for apply the no-fly zone. Indonesian state is the sovereign state, therefore with the implementation of no-fly zone meant that no reduction in the sovereignty of Indonesian state. The results showed that no-fly zone was regulated in International Law on Paris Convention 1919 Article 3 and 4, and Chicago Convention 1944 Article 9. The National Law, no-fly zone was regulated on Article 7 Legislation Number 1 of 2009 about Aviation. Indonesia has setting the rule of no-fly zone in the region WAP7 Surabaya Naval Base and WAP23 Balikpapan Flare. Indonesia Air Force has working to maintain the sovereignty of Indonesia.


2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 115-120
Author(s):  
Robert Kałuża ◽  
Piotr Czech ◽  
Tomasz Figlus ◽  
Piotr Gustof ◽  
Katarzyna Turoń

As a result of the increase in the number of vehicles traveling on Polish roads, the state of security has changed significantly in recent years. The risk of a collision or traffic accident has increased as a result of increased traffic. Police statistics show that one of the participants in the collision are people who are cycling. In court practice, when dealing with cases relating to road accidents involving bicycles, it is often necessary to determine the behavior of the driver at the time before the event occurred. For this purpose, knowledge about the braking distance achieved or the braking time of the bicycle can be useful. The article presents the results of testing the braking process of various types of brake systems and bicycles.


2006 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-346
Author(s):  
Ruzica Mrdakovic-Cvetkovic

The author deals with a set of questions that have emerged after the secession of the Republic of Montenegro from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro, and they are as follows: international legal continuity of Serbia, membership of the two now independent states in various international organizations, the issues concerning the succession between Serbia and Montenegro, regulation of various individual rights of the citizens from the former State Union, etc.


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