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Presumptions have been playing an important role in the civil trial, their necessity and utility being recognized both in the doctrine and in the judicial practice. Recently, in order to remove any doubt about the quality of means of evidence of the presumptions, the legislator of the Civil Procedure Code enumerates them among the means of evidence and, at the same time, establishes their legal regime, and the legislator of the Civil Code has extended the scope of the legal presumptions. The reason behind these regulations is based precisely on the necessity to find out the truth also in the cases in which the judge does not have available direct evidence. Certainly, as we have stated on another occasion, the presumptions are indirect means of evidence, as the conclusions drawn imply eo ipso the prior proof of a fact that is neighbouring and related to the unknown fact. As we shall further show, the Romanian legislator has understood to classify the presumptions into legal (established by law) and judicial or simple (left to the enlightments and wisdom of the judge), with the mention that, in this study, we shall refer in particular to the legal presumptions. -
In this paper the author has proceeded to a brief examination of the European normative act adopted in March 2016, which regulates the presumption of innocence and the right to be present at the trial within the criminal procedures, both rights being circumscribed to the right to a fair trial provided in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The study also makes a comparative examination which has in view how these rights of the suspect or of the accused are protected in the Romanian law, also expressing some critical opinions as concerns the European normative act. The elements of novelty consist in the examination made, as well as in the comparative analysis and the critical opinions expressed. -
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According to the decision of the supreme court, further to the judge admitting the complaint against the resolution not to initiate criminal investigations and sending the case to the prosecutor, the latter cannot be obliged to initiate the criminal investigation; in his turn, the judge cannot hold the case for settlement, the consequences being very serious in what regards free access to justice. -
It has become recently effective Law no. 40/2011 amending and supplementing Law no. 53/2003 (the current Romanian Labour Code), wideranging regulation bringing the Labor Code of 2003 more than 100 amendments, supplements and repeals forward. Within the two studies’ pack - published independently, though under the same title - the two authors review but 16 of these amendments/supplements/ repeals which require, necessarily, a legal review in order to clarify the meaning and effect of the incidence of some purports, so as to avoid controversy and debate in case law and doctrine, likely to cause difficulties and confusion in the practical implementation of relevant purports. Finally, the authors advance a more general conclusion in terms of Law no. 40/2011. -
The tax administrative disputes, as a branch of the administrative disputes, a fundamental institution of the state of law, meant to protect and guarantee the fundamental rights and freedoms of citizens, becomes particularly important after the accession of Romania to the European Union. In this context, by the adoption of the new Fiscal Procedure Code, harmonized with the European acts in the matter, the fiscal processual rules which regulate the matter of the tax administrative disputes enjoy a greater clarity, quality and predictability. Starting from these desiderata, this study aims at analyzing the main amendments and supplements brought by the new Fiscal Procedure Code, in the matter of the tax administrative disputes, in relation to the provisions of the Fiscal Procedure Code in force. -
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The purpose of this article is to approach the common features of medicine and law – the principles which have to govern the medical behaviour and medical liability. Medical principles were often ignored by legal literature (which is so hard to find), but there are a few notes in medical ethics. Medical principles rule the manner in which the provider of medical services, devices, pharmaceuticals, the doctor and the National Health Insurance House are acting in regard to the patient. Meanwhile, ignoring this principles will lead to engaging the liability of doctors, providers of medical services, the devices and pharmaceuticals or, even worse, may result in the agreement’s invalidity. These principles constitute the foundation of a new era, under construction – medical law and they need to become the primary rule for those who are involved in both medicine and law. Our research revealed that medical law is at its beginnings. The purpose of this study is to offer an in-depth analysis and understanding of medical law, by studying its bases (medical principles). -
The time elapsed since the entry into force of the new codes, although short, brought to the current legal exercise of the practitioners problems of great complexity, if only through the novelty of the institutional innovations or through the difficulties of interpretation and of uniform application. Perceiving the evolutions of the regulations, but also their drawbacks, demonstrated by the very attempts of legislative reconfiguration or by the sanctions of the constitutional judge, this study focused on the extent of their reception and their enrichment with the spirit of the fundamental principles of law, an objective expressly assumed by the legislator. From the vastness of the regulations, the author has chosen a few, which it deemed significant for the applications on the merits of the criminal trial: the more favourable criminal law, the prescription, the criminal prosecution, the plea bargaining agreement, the preliminary chamber. He also considered that some decisions of the Constitutional Court require a sequential analysis if only for the desire to open a field of discussion about a beneficial uniformity and an equal application of a genuine set of rules thus attached to the codes. -
The former regulation – the Law No 85/2006 – did not define the principles underlying the application of the insolvency procedures, these being identified, explained and developed by the legal doctrine. The 13 principles provided by the Law No 85/2014 are applicable both to the procedures for preventing insolvency and to the insolvency procedures. The principles are applied by the bodies involved in the procedure, in the absence of some express provisions, which regulate some specific situation, or are used for the interpretation of an unclear text. Defining the principles is extremely important, the practice following to prove their usefulness, where the regulation is lacking or is unclear. This study aims to analyze comparatively the principles stated by the legal doctrine in the ambiance of the provisions of the Law No 85/2006, as well as the principles provided by Article 4 of Law No 85/2014, with special regard to the principle of maximizing the degree of realisation of assets and of recovery of claims. -
This article makes a brief presentation of the new basic principles of Romanian criminal proceedings, which represent general rules contained in the legislation of the Member States of the European Union, considered to be the basis of modern criminal proceedings. The validity and efficiency of these rules have been tested by the judicial practice in France, Italy, Belgium and others and by the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. -
Law No 85/2006 on the procedure of insolvency was initially repealed and replaced by the Government Emergency Ordinance No 91/2013 on the procedures for preventing insolvency and of insolvency, which was in force only a few days, being declared unconstitutional, in its entirety, by the Constitutional Court of Romania. For this reason, it was necessary to adopt a new law on this matter (No 85/2014) which entered into force at the end of June 2014. In this study, the authors examine more extensively the principles of the procedure of insolvency, as well as the rights and the obligations of the participants, as currently regulated by Law No 85/2014, in comparison, when appropriate, with the previous law (Law No 85/2006).
