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The aim of the present paper is to cover the main aspects regarding the legal treatment of witness protection in the Romanian criminal legislation by presenting, from a critical standpoint, the current regulation of the witness protection. The authors analysed essential aspects regarding the protection of threatened witnesses, the protection measures ordered during the criminal investigation, the protection measures ordered during the trial or the protected witnesses hearing, as well as the protection of vulnerable witnesses by reporting to the European Convention of Human Rights provisions and jurisprudence. Also, the present paper analyses the probative value of the protected witness statements and contains comparative law matters on witness protection laws in several European countries. -
For the first time in the Romanian legislation, the new Civil Code (Article 1368) expressly regulates the subsidiary obligation to reimburse the victim, in the sense that „lack of discernment does not exempt the author of the damage from paying a reimbursement to the victim whenever the liability of the person who, according to the law, had the duty to supervise such person can not be engaged” (the author of the damage). In this study there are successively examined: aspects of comparative law in the matter; the position of the Romanian doctrine and of the case-law on the issue in question; the quality of the liable person [for the purpose of Article 1368 (1) of the Civil Code]; the tort civil liability of the person who lacks discernment; the legal basis of the subsidiary liability of the person who lacks discernment; final de lege ferenda proposals in order to improve Article 1368 (1) of the Civil Code. -
Ever since the date of its publication in the Official Gazette of Romania, Part I, the Law No 241/2005 has become a highly debated law in the doctrine, many of its articles underlying inhomogeneous judicial decisions. Article 10 of the above-mentioned Law was one of the Articles which excelled by its lack of predictability, a fact which lead to raising a large number of pleas of unconstitutionality. Over time, its applicability has received some clarifications however, even today, some aspects still raise controversies and continue to lead to an inhomogeneous judicial practice. For this reason, the author believes that the intervention of the High Court of Cassation and Justice would be more than welcome. -
Present in the Romanian Criminal Code (Article 356), with ancient tradition of incrimination, the contamination of water makes the transition from the offences against public health to those concerning the environmental protection, meaning that, although being, in principle, a hazard offence, it involves an immediate result (harmful nature). This situation creates a series of difficulties in practice, including in terms of evidence, as it arises from the recent case law, a fact that requires a series of clarifications. -
Requests for clarifications regarding offers submitted by tenderers in a public procurement procedure are a necessary instrument for contracting authorities that allow them to avoid any unjustified rejection of any offer and breach of the general principles described by the national and European provisions. Questions such as if there is still a debate on the right or obligation to address clarifications are treated in the article. The analysis takes into consideration the provisions of the new legislation on classic public procurement in contrast with the old legislation in order to seek the differences and the similarities. -
The article contains an analysis of litigation on reducing military service pensions recalculated/revised by Law no. 119/2010 and by Government Emergency Ordinance no. 1/2011, in relation to those retained by the High Court of Cassation and Justice in Decision no. 29/2011, given in solving interesting appeal in law, on the application of the provisions of Law no. 29/2011. From the perspectives of the Decision no. 29/2011 the High Court of Cassation and Justice, the analysis is presented on two levels. First, targeting issues of constitutionality of the Law. 119/2010 and, second, conventional control of the law courts, in assessing the application effects in concreto of national standards, by reference to the European Convention on Human Rights. -
This study analyzes the rules within the Romanian labour legislation referring to the attributions of the trade unions in correlation with those of the elected representatives of the employees. It is concluded that there are, in this matter, legal solutions obviously uncorrelated, major errors, unjustified exclusions from the exercise of some attributions of the representatives of the employees in favour of the trade unions. All these despite the fact that, in terms of essential competences – either of the trade unions or of the representatives of the employees –, the legal solutions are identical. In relation to these findings there are made a series of proposals to improve the labour legislation which have as objectives to clarify the role and to state the attributions of the trade unions and of the representatives of the employees in the conduct of the labour relations. -
As it can be inferred from the title, in this study the author intends to make an analysis of the institution of „exclusion of evidence”, which exists in the Romanian Criminal Procedure Code of 1968, which is maintained and further detailed in the new Criminal Procedure Code, differently interpreted in the doctrine and less present in the case-law from Romania. The study begins with a general and comparative presentation of the „sanction” in question in the former and in the present regulation, also being analysed the modification brought by the Law implementing the new Criminal Procedure Code. Within this study there are presented and analyzed the conditions in which the sanction of exclusion of evidence operates, as regulated by the present Criminal Procedure Code. However, the analysis focuses on the doctrinal interpretation of these conditions, by emphasizing the existence of a trend to relate the sanction of exclusion of evidence to the conditions of the sanction of nullity. As far as the author is concerned, she pleads for the interpretation and practical application of the sanction of exclusion of evidence separately from the conditions of nullity, subject only to the breach of the principle of legality and loyalty in providing evidence. For this purpose, the author also makes some interesting de lege ferenda proposals. -
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. -
The author briefly examines the issue of securities in the Romanian private law and she further presents the regulation of their administration according to the current Romanian Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009, republished on July 15th 2011), entered into force as at October 1st 2011. -
The article presents the constitutional landmarks which justify the sanction of the absolute nullity of the violation of the provisions referring to the material competence and competence according to the person’s quality of the criminal investigation body and analyzes this nullity from the perspective of the processual and procedural documents that establish the sanction, which has the effect of resumption of the criminal prosecution by the competent body or the exclusion of some processual documents or probative procedures. -
The article analyzes recent and older judgments of the High Court of Cassation and Justice and other courts on the regularity of the document instituting court proceedings, through the indictment prepared by the prosecutor. By highlighting the lack of uniform settlement of irregularities arising in the procedure laid down in Art. 300 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the authors try to find harmonious solutions for the procedural incidents arising in matters. Also, a significant part of the article is dedicated to the provisions of the new Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the analyzed matter, highlighting some deficiencies specific to the new rules.
