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The institution of suspension of the individual labour contract is regulated by Articles 49–54 of the Labour Code (Law No 53/2003, republished on 18 May 2011). More or less recently, the Law No 255/2013 for the implementation of Law No 135/2010 on the Criminal Procedure Code (entered into force on 1 February 2014) and for amending and supplementing some normative acts which include criminal procedural provisions, supplemented the Labour Code (republished) by adding Article 52 (1) c1), pursuant to which the suspension of the individual labour contract occurs (on the employer’s initiative) also „in case the measure of judicial control or of judicial control on bail has been taken against the employee, under the terms of the Criminal Procedure Code, if there have been established, as his duty, obligations which prevent the performance of the labour contract, as well as in case the employee is under house arrest, and the content of the measure prevents the performance of the labour contract”. In this study, the author analyses this new and recently regulated case of suspension of the individual labour contract on the employer’s initiative. -
In the absence of some systematic concerns with significant results, the concept of legal culture still remains at the stage of exploration of its meanings. Starting with its increasing role in the configuration of the law, this study deals with defining the concept, placing it in the context of culture in general and emphasizing the constitutive elements and the main contributions: the history of law, the legal language, the dialogue by means of comparative law, the practice of justice and others. The professional legal cultures and their role occupy an important place in the spiritual concert of society. It is analyzed the legal perception of the concept of culture, the role of scientific research in the matter and the implications of globalization. An outline of the Romanian legal culture in the historical dynamics completes the author’s approach.
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The definition of the legal guard of things and animals within Article 1377 of the Civil Code is one of the elements of novelty in our civil legislation, summarizing the most important features outlined over time in the doctrine and in the case-law. The study intends, starting from this definition, to present a selection of solutions and comments concerning the conditions of engaging the tort civil liability of the guardian, the transmission and the splitting up of the legal guard, as well as the causes which exonerate the guardian from its liability.
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Prevederile imperative ale art. 73 alin. (2) din Legea nr. 85/2006, care instituie un termen de 5 zile în care să se formuleze contestația la tabelul preliminar de creanțe, nu intră în contradicție cu termenele recomandate de către judecătorul sindic în încheierea de deschidere a procedurii insolvenței. Prin urmare, nu sunt îndeplinite condițiile prevăzute de art. 322 pct. 7 C.pr.civ. în cazul în care se invocă contrarietatea dintre încheierea de deschidere a procedurii insolvenței și decizia prin care a fost respinsă ca tardivă contestația la tabelul preliminar, întrucât nu se poate confunda termenul prevăzut de art. 73 alin. (2) din Legea nr. 85/2006 cu termenele prevăzute de art. 62 din aceeași lege. (Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție, Secția a II-a civilă, Decizia nr. 4020 din 19 noiembrie 2013) -
There are different solutions concerning the legality of inclusion in the annual paid leave allowance of the 4 additional sucessive classes of remuneration by which the basic salary is increased, as additional payment for exercising the activity of preventive financial control, according to Article 20 (4) of the Framework Law No 284/2010 on the unitary remuneration of the staff paid from public funds. According to some opinions, it is permitted to include in the annual leave allowance the 4 additional sucessive classes of remuneration, while, according to other opinions, this possibility is not admitted. This study presents the conditions in which, in the opinion of the author, the 4 additional sucessive classes of remuneration can be included in the annual paid leave allowance.
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This study raises for discussion the current meaning of the term „commercial arbitration” within the text of Article 146 d) of the Constitution since, presently, under Article 3 of the current Romanian Civil Code, corroborated with Article 8 of the Law No 71/2011, and of other normative acts issued for the application and the development of the provisions of the Civil Code, the latter is „monistic”, in the sense that the new civil legislation has abandoned the traditional division into civil legal relations and commercial legal relations, a duality that existed in the legislation of private law in Romania until 1 October 2011.
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The article analyses the main changes brought to the Constitution by the bill currently under parliamentary debate. The conclusion is that the bill represents a failure from many perspectives: transparency and public debate that must accompany such an important project; dialogue between the power and the opposition in the Parliament; ignorance for the result of a national referendum and, last but not least, the faulty wording of the text. Normally, if a Constitution revision is desired, the parliamentary majority should start negotiations with other parliamentary parties with the purpose of forming a Constitutional Convention which is to draft a new bill. If the parliamentary debate continues on the current bill declared, almost entirely, by the Constitutional Court as not respecting the revision limits and a new referendum will be organized for the approval of the bill, this bill has all chances to fail. A new revision bill should be drafted after a long political debate in which citizens must understand the necessity of the revision. Also, a new bill should consider the interests of the citizens and not interests of those in power.
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The entry into force of the four Codes – Civil, Civil Procedure, Criminal and Criminal Procedure – has put an end to the legislative reform of the last 24 years in Romania and now begins the stage of their implementation. This will involve, besides noting the first case-law reactions, the initiation of a process of developing a new Romanian legal doctrine of criminal law and of private law, respectively. From this perspective, the period of exegetical approach, which is in full progress and which has manifested in the form of annotations, comments and theoretical explanations of the Codes, must be followed, as soon as possible, by theoretical analyses meant to deduct the new principles and to contribute to syntheses and systematic exposures of private law and of criminal law, respectively. In this regard, a priority role pertains to the scientific research in the field of law.
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After the entry into force of the Civil Procedure Code and of the Civil Code which introduced new institutions in the matter of family relationships, the Government Emergency Ordinance No 80/2013 on judicial stamp duties was adopted in order to reflect the new structure and dynamics of civil proceedings, new procedural safeguards afforded to parties in order to ensure a fair trial, as well as to cover additional costs for the development of infrastructure and to ensure the necessary logistics for the implementation of the new legal provisions. This study analyses the application of the provisions of Article 15 of the Government Emergency Ordinance No 80/2013 on the judicial stamp duties.
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Law No 165/2013 on the measures for the finalisation of the process of restitution, in kind or by equivalent, of the buildings abusively taken over during the communist regime in Romania institutes a new regulatory framework in the matter of acceleration of the process of restitution of real estate property, in agreement with the principles stated by the (European) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and by the case-law of the European Court on Human Rights. In the ambience of the new regulatory framework instituted by the Law No 165/2013, this study analyzes several issues regulated by the new regulatory framework by referring to special normative acts which came into force before Law No 165/2013. Thus, some aspects referring to the powers of the entities vested with powers for the application of the reparatory laws in the matter of buildings (land and constructions) are analyzed, in the context of the new legal framework instituted by Law No 165/2013, as well as the powers of new entities vested with powers for the application of the reparatory laws. There are also examined some aspects concerning the infringement of the legislative technical rules on the adoption of Law No 165/2013, which can give rise to difficulties in the process of acceleration of restitution of real estate property or, where appropriate, in the process of granting compensatory measures.
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In this study the author examines the provisions of the new (Romanian) Civil Procedure Code referring to the verification of the application for summons and its regularisation by the law court, in the light of the procedures of the same code which regulate the nullity of procedural acts.
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The author analyzes the procedure to be followed on the hypothesis that the applicant proves that it is impossible for him to trace the domicile of the defendant. The principle of settlement of the trial within due and foreseeable time, the necessity of going through the procedure preliminary to the first hearing term instituted by law, the safeguarding of the right to defense of the respondent are taken into consideration. There are also examined the modality and the time when the law court designates the special guardian to represent the interests of the respondent, starting from the regulations of the Civil Procedure Code in this matter.
