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The execution of the warrant represents an essential element in the activity of the police bodies, which must make all efforts so as to arrest the convict. Throughout the article, the author describes the main controversies in the legal practice in relation to this area of activity, also making a critical examination of the legal provisions included in the current Penal Procedure Code, as well as in the new Penal Procedure Code. -
The author analyses some specific features of the claim for compensation brought by private persons injured by unlawful administrative acts of authority or by public authorities’ refusal to solve claims concerning rights and legitimate interests of citizens. The claim for compensation has an accessory and subsidiary character in relation to the main claim for the annulment of the administrative act of authority, the repair of the damage being conditioned by the annulment of the act or by the obligation of the public authority to solve the claim of the private person. The study points out that the accessoriality relationship between the claim for compensation and the main claim bears consequences with regard to the jurisdiction of administrative courts. -
In this study, the authors present a commentary of Article 145 of the Constitution, referring to the independence and the irremovability of the judges of the Constitutional Court. It is presented, in detail, the normative will of the Constituent Assembly on the status of the constitutional judges, the content of their independence and the irremovability which was conferred to them by the constitutional text. The judges of the Constitutional Court have at their disposal a legal framework, of constitutional rank, which guarantees their independence and irremovability and which, at the same time, imposes restrictions of professional nature. Within the same study, the authors also present the problems of the disciplinary and criminal liability of the constitutional judges, as well as the legal regime of immunity which they enjoy, according to the Law No 47/1992 on the organization and functioning of the Constitutional Court. -
The present study proposes for analysis some of the implications of the pandemic generated by the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the matter of the property right and not only, following to consider the property right in its broad sense, derived from the ECHR case law in the matter. As concerns the research hypothesis, the author starts from the premise that the inclination towards martyrology manifested throughout the history by our country determines that some particularly restrictive measures be adopted also in the context generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, the most often without a solid theoretical foundation. It is also considered, as a research hypothesis, that there is currently a trend worldwide towards authoritarianism and interventionism from the state government, which is reflected in the measures taken during this period in order to prevent the spread of the respiratory virus. -
The study reveals, in its introductory part, some shortcomings of Law No. 8/1996 on copyright and rights related to copyright, in the field of audio-visual works, such as the contested definition thereof or the absence of definition of the audio-visual production contract definition, and puts forth its own points of view, likely to lead to the settlement of such cases. On the merits, the work depicts the characteristic features of the audio-visual production contract, its delimitation as to other types of contracts, analyses the Contracting Parties as well as the purpose and wording thereof, in terms of legal regulations and doctrinal interpretations. -
In this study the author has analyzed corruption from the perspective of its legal implications on the business environment. A notion which appeared at the same time with the economic changes became in time a truly global scourge which has systemically affected the economic exchanges, the financial flows, the market economy. It symbolizes, after all, the poor functioning of the state which makes considerable efforts to control the economic and financial crime. In this context, the author has identified corruption acts and measures to combat them, also emphasizing the constant efforts at both state and international level, in order to combat this criminal phenomenon. -
This study analyzes a series of correlations between the current Civil Code (entered into force on October 1, 2011) and the legislation relating to intellectual creation (works, related creations thereof, databases, inventions, industrial drawings or models, trademarks and geographical indications). In this respect, following a series of considerations concerning the legal terminology in this field, the paper discusses the patrimonial intellectual property rights on the works and trademarks that each of the spouses registered, as well as on scientific or literary manuscripts, drawings, art and invention projects and other similar property, as well as on the revenues due under an intellectual property right. Finally, it draws some considerations related to private international law matters on the legal protection of intellectual creation. -
In this article, the author critically examines matters of criminal procedural guarantees for the injured person, the injured party or civil party, stressing their importance in the administration of criminal justice. In this context, topics on the rights of victims are depicted inspired from the principle of equality of arms, inferred from the (European) Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the author making some suggestions on repairing the damage caused as a result of the offense. -
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The accession of Romania to the European Union on January 1st, 2007 also involved the need for harmonization of national legislation with the European one, which, inter alia, led to the elaboration of a new Criminal Code. This regulation covers some new elements, including the crime of harm to the unborn child, as provided for in Article 202 under the new Criminal Code, as an integral part of Title I of the Special Part dedicated to crime against the person. As stated in the Explanatory Memorandum to the new Criminal Code, by criminalizing such acts it was intended to cover a legal vacuum, i.e. to protect the fetus from the moment of the commencement of the delivery process until completion thereof. In the study hereby, the author examines from the criminal doctrine perspective, but also in terms of medical science, the meaning of the term fetus and the phrases “during childbirth” and “during pregnancy”, advancing some de lege ferenda proposals. -
This article presents the new criminal provisions relating to the cancellation and revocation in the cases of waiver of application of punishment, postponement of application of punishment and the suspension of the execution of the punishment under supervision. The author also proposes a new mechanism for the application of punishment if there is a concurrence between a cause of cancellation and one of revocation of the postponement of the application of punishment or of the suspension of execution of punishment under supervision. -
This study proposes a comparative analysis of the main economic and financial offences from their regulatory perspective, given the significant amendments of the Romanian criminal legislation occurred starting with 1 February 2014. The author makes a presentation of how the incrimination of these criminal acts has been amended, regardless of the relevant provisions, the Criminal Code or the special laws. He insists on the situations where amendments of substance occurred and it is analyzed their opportunity, as well as the effects reflected by the judicial practice. Similarly, critical notes are exposed, with the necessary arguments on some of these legislative amendments.
