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The company’s entry into insolvency proceedings may be the result of an unfavourable economic situation or the abusive or negligent attitude of the governing bodies may contribute to this outcome. Sometimes people outside the company may have exercised a direct or indirect control of the company’s activities and be liable for insolvency. In these last hypotheses, the legislator chose to sanction insolvency peers who are held patrimonial alongside the insolvent society in order to satisfy creditors’ claims. As a rule, the former statutory administrator is the one who is called upon to respond to the mismanagement of the company’s business. Taking responsibility for this person implies the making of a claim for property liability which is the subject of a separate litigation in the company’s insolvency proceedings. This distinct dispute is settled in a contradictory procedure, with the administration of evidence in order to establish the meeting of the conditions of civil liability under Article 169 of the Law No 85/2014. When, prior to the opening of insolvency proceedings or during the course of the proceedings, whether or not an application for the liability of the statutory administrator was initiated, the question arises as to what happens when the death of the statutory administrator occurs. Such a request to obtain a patrimonial response in conflict with the heirs of the predecessor administrator may be made or continued or the liability is limited to the person of the deceased and a decision cannot be made to order the successors to answer for de cujus clerical errors. -
In its capacity of party to the (European) Convention on Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and its Additional Protocols, inter alia, Romania has committed to comply with Art. 6 of the mentioned international instrument as well as with art. 2 of the Additional Protocol no. 7. For this reason, it is imperative that documents which have important procedural consequences and emanating from a body which is part of the executive power, to be susceptible of a fair and adversarial control from a judge, meeting the fairness guarantees consistent with the rule of law – this is, in fact, the ratio legis of art. 2781 of the Criminal Procedure Code. Equally, according to art. 2 of the Additional Protocol no. 7 to this Convention, any person convicted of an offense within the autonomous meaning of this term, has the right to submit the “declaration of guilt” concerned to the analysis of a higher court, benefiting from the double degree of jurisdiction in criminal matters. This study aims to analyze the compliance of the referred supranational provisions with the provisions of positive domestic law. -
The retransmission of the right to successoral option raises some difficulties of theoretical understanding and practical application, at least for the following reasons: the Civil Code, now in force, substantially changes the logic of the previous regulation of this legal institution; in practice, there are being debated, with a significant frequency, inheritances opened before 1 October 2011 (the moment when the current Civil Code entered into force) and which consequently fall under the incidence of the provisions of the former Civil Code (which ultractivates); there are encountered, in practice more frequently, several inheritances in respect of which the right to successoral option has been successively retransmitted; the institution about whose issues we are concerned herein, in particular, have some resemblances to the successoral representation and to the retransmission of the inheritance. For all these reasons, and we believe that there are not few, nor the only ones, we will discuss further the retransmission of the right to successoral option, starting from the theoretical aspects, which are indispensable for its just understanding and for its proper application in practice. In this context, we will give concrete examples, with the hope that they will be of use to theoreticians and, in particular, to practitioners in the field of successions.
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In this study the author analyses the individual amnesty at the level of the constitutional disposition, in the light of the compared law as a prerogative of the head of State. Covering this analysis, the author concludes that the deed of individual amnesty represents a discretionary and sovereign duty known in most cases as a prerogative of the executive body which exercises this prerogative being able to pardon, usually, without any justification, any individual, no matter the offence he/she committed, provided that he/she was finally sentenced. -
The proposed study aims, in particular, at questionable normative aspects concerning „the action for nullity of the registration of the trademark” in the regulation of the Law No 84/1998 on trademarks and geographical indications. In fact, contrary to the reference that some texts of this law make to „the nullity of the registration of the trademark” or to „the cancellation of the trademark”, the nullity has as object the „administrative legal act of the State Office for Inventions and Trademarks of registration of the trademark”. Likewise, it argues on the uselessness of some rules devoted to this action at law. -
In this study, the author carries out a critical analysis of the provisions of articles 508-534 of the current Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009, as republished on 15 July 2011 and which came into force on the 1st of October 2011), texts which regulate „the legal obligation to support”. Essentially, the author, after emphasizing a series of new judicious and useful regulations of the above mentioned texts of the current Civil Code shows at the same time numerous deficiencies of articles 508-534 of the Civil Code which has recently become effective and which, in his opinion, involves many amendments, supplements and even abolitions of the concerned rules. -
The study presents critical issues on contraventional complaints’ settlement procedure from point of view of Law 202/2010 regarding certain measures to accelerate the process. The reason for this amendment was obvious: the rapid settlement of trials far more numerous than in other matters also due a consequence of the fact the offenders’ procedural interest was that many times only that of suspension of the enforcement of fines and other sanctions imposed by the records of offense, suspension which, according to legislation in the matter, became effective by law upon the registration of the contraventional complaint until the date of the final and irrevocable judgment. In the second part of the study, the author has analyzed the nature of contraventional law given that offenses were removed from the criminal law and have undergone administrative arrangements. Issues of unconstitutionality by removing appeal in certain contraventional matters were addressed, arguing that thereby they have infringed art. 2 of Protocol 7, supplementing the (European) Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. In the final considerations, the author revealed that the ruling no. 500/2012 of the Constitutional Court case-law is a welcomed revival for the Romanian legislation arguing that it forces a reconsideration of the regulation on contraventional proceedings as a whole. -
Maybe some of the most controversial crimes, the rape and the sexual deviations, gave birth to numerous debates in the specialty literature, as well as in the doctrine, but also different, sometimes contradictory solutions in the legal practice. The author shows that not even the High Court of Cassation and justice succeeded to convince or end these controversies, even though that, through decision no. III/2005, tried to clarify the meaning of the material element of the rape crime. The lawmaker, through the incrimination norm of the rape and sexual aggression crimes of the new Penal Code tries to clarify and avoid, for the future, such issues. The present study highlights these possible problems and solutions. -
The paper is based on the non-uniform practice of the courts within the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal Oradea, as well as from the country, referring to the following situations: the rejection of the proposal for preventive detention during the criminal prosecution; the rejection of the proposal for extension of preventive detention during criminal prosecution; the cessation de jure of the preventive measures; the revocation of preventive measures and the replacement of a preventive measure with other preventive measure. Within this paper the author deals with controversial aspects in the matter of judicial remedies concerning the preventive measures. -
This paper presents a brief analysis of the problems raised by the offence of theft. The authors emphasize, on the one hand, the close connection between these problems and some errors occurred in the civil theory of possession, and, on the other hand, some shortcomings of the current definition of the offence of theft. Similarly, there are presented some possible corrections, both at theoretical level and at legislative level. -
The purpose of imposing the criminal processual sanctions is to respect the principle of legality that governs the criminal trial. The principle of legality, established in Article 2 of the Criminal Procedure Code, is the fundamental principle of the criminal trial according to which the conduct of the entire criminal trial, namely in all its phases (criminal prosecution, preliminary chamber, judgment, enforcement phase), takes place strictly according to the provisions stipulated by the law. The effects of this principle are materialized in a series of processual guarantees, one of the most powerful guarantees of the fulfilment of the processual and procedural acts according to the legal rules being precisely the processual sanctions. The problems which arise in the practice in connection with the application and interpretation of the regulations incidental in the matter of criminal processual sanctions have led us to proceed to the elaboration of this study. -
The developments which the Romanian, European and international society has experienced, especially in the last decade, coincide with the 10th anniversary of our country’s accession to the European Union, requiring new approaches of the multiple dimensions which the integration process involves. The integration into the European Union, which has generated a series of changes at constitutional level, is also one of the objectives of Romania at international level. Likewise, the process of accession to the European Union has conferred to the Romanian citizens, inclusively, the right to participate in the European Parliament elections, both as candidates and as voters, according to Article 38 of the Romanian Constitution, republished. In this study, the author intends to discuss the problems of Romania’s accession to the European Union from the perspective of the constitutional provisions.
