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Starting from the situations encountered in the judicial practice, in the disputes regarding the right of the employees to the classification of their workplaces into outstanding or special conditions, and given the particularities of this fundamental right of health and safety at work, with a special view on the practical consequences which the recently pronounced decisions of the supreme court will have, decisions which have established that the employees do no longer have available the option of the action for establishing the classification of workplaces into outstanding or special conditions in contradiction with the employer, this article analyses the respect for the employees’ right of access to justice, to non-discriminatory treatment and to receive their benefits consisting of social insurance rights. -
The study deals with the particularities of the human medically assisted reproduction in the cross-border private relationships. Among the artificial procreation techniques, surrogate motherhood is of present interest, as a result of the multiplication of the requests for recognition, on the territory of the forum, of the foreign judgments which establish the filiation of the child born abroad. The implications of private international law are tangential to the qualification, to the conflicts of laws in time and space and to the effectiveness of the foreign judgments. The heterogeneity of the national regulations is the main factor creating non-unitary case laws and different practices – some of them, questionable. The context of the analysis does not allow the dissociation of the artificial procreation from the higher interest of the child, so that any de lege lata or de lege ferenda solutions must be examined through the filter of this fundamental principle.
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This study proposes the approach of an identified problem with regard to the regulation of the manner of applying the complementary punishment of prohibition to exercise some rights. By the analysis made within this study, the author identifies a situation of inequity which can arise in precise cases between the case of the sentenced person conditionally released from serving the punishment of life imprisonment and the case of the conditionally released person sentenced to imprisonment in detention.
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This article aims to examine Article 16 of the Labour Code, republished, on the requirement of drafting individual employment agreement in Romanian language, from various standpoints, such as: (i) applicable sanction for failure to conclude the individual employment agreement in Romanian language; (ii) the requirement to observe the principle of equal treatment in cases where the individual employment agreement is concluded with a foreign citizen or a national of another Member State of the European Union or the European Economic Area, concretized, inter alia, by drafting the individual employment agreement in the language of the foreign citizen; (iii) the probative value of the versions of the individual employment agreement concluded in several languages. -
This study makes an examination of the legal provisions regarding the retirement of the university teaching staff. There are analyzed in a critical manner the provisions stated in Article 289 (3) and (6) of the Law on national education No 1/2011, which refers to the continuation of activity by the retired teaching staff and to the maintenance of the quality of titular in education and/or research. The author believes that the syntagms used by the mentioned texts do not receive an exemplary drafting, which may lead to different interpretations. The author also points out that, in the administrative practice, some university senates have adopted methodologies capable of annihilating the application of the legal provisions regarding the maintenance of the quality of titular of the teaching staff, solution appreciated as deeply illegal. At the end of his study, the author considers that it is necessary a better drafting of the texts relating to the maintainance in office of the university teaching staff whose teaching and scientific performance is undeniable. Likewise, de lege ferenda, it is estimated that such a possibility should be recognized only for university professors, not for all teaching staff.
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The study devoted to the loan contract resumes in a new form, determined, indeed, by the new Civil Code as well, this type of contract with a millenary existence, which has its roots in the Roman Age. The study emphasizes the evolution in time of the loan contract, from the essentially free loan, concluded between relatives, friends, acquaintances, a contract in which the moral precepts, including those related to religious morals, were extremely obvious, to the current loan contract, with an onerous variant, a contract that, without having lost its viability, has become extremely topical, useful. The study also emphasizes the form in which the Civil Code has insisted on regulating this type of contract, under the more or less beneficial influence of the doctrine and of the case law prior to its adoption. We tried, where we found it necessary, to go beyond the traditional patterns of the contract, as it is regarded by a significant part of the doctrine, and to accredit other points of view, being fully aware of their fragility. Last but not least, we tried to adapt the theories of some pragmatic exigencies, which, ultimately, should prevail over any constructions more related to the philosophy of law, not to the changing law. -
This study aims to advance solutions in view of determining the effects triggered by decisions issued by the Court of Auditors, establishing the unlawfulness of granting certain rights through collective labour agreements concluded at the level of public institutions financed entirely from own revenues, on the clauses of the collective labour agreement by which those rights were established.
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Among the assets that are the object to public property and are likely to be subject to concession and lease of particular importance are the permanent lawns. A special normative act was dedicated to them, namely the Government Emergency Ordinance No 34/2013, which regulates inclusively the concession and lease of lawns which are in the public or private property of communes, towns and municipalities. As regards the concession and lease of the lawns which are in the public property of the above-mentioned administrative-territorial units, the legislator understood to derogate in some respects from the common law. Thus, the local public authorities are obliged to approve until 1 March every year the concession or lease for a period of 7 years to 10 years, without having the opportunity to assess the appropriateness of these juridical operations, the place of the opportunity study is taken by the pastoral arrangement, the award procedure is triggered at the written request of the animal breeders registered in the National Register of exploitations, there is no possibility of changing the destination of the concessioned or leased assets, even if there would be a consent of the owners, the lease contract for the lawns is non-transmissible even in the hypotheses regulated by Article 1846 of the Civil Code and others. The derogatory legal regime for concessioning of lawns which are in the public property is justified by the importance the legislator gives to the capitalization of these assets. Thus, in the statement of reasons of the cited normative act it is shown that animal breeding is an activity of national interest and the permanent lawns owned by the administrative-territorial units is for many breeders the only source of providing food for these. At the same time, capitalizing these assets is the premise of granting subsidies per area. These subsidies being granted from European funds the importance of the concession of those assets is undeniable. This explains why the administrative-territorial units to which a request for concession has been made do not have the possibility to assess the appropriateness of such a juridical operation, by law being imposed on them an obligation to grant permanent lawns. Correlatively, the animal breeders, natural persons or legal persons, who make in due time requests for concession acquire the right to participate in the award procedure, right which can be defended by resorting to the action in administrative disputes. -
Pursuant to Article 65 of the (Romanian) Labour Code, the dismissal of the employee due to the dissolution of his workplace, for one or more reasons not related to this employee, involves, according to paragraph (2) of this text, that such a dissolution „be effective and have a real and serious cause”. Having a view that in the case law there is a difference of opinions on the above-mentioned phrase, the author makes an exhaustive analysis of the text of Article 65 and comes to the firm conclusion that, in case of dispute, the court must determine whether, in this case: – the dissolution of the workplace has occurred due to a real cause, therefore the cause was objective, of an undeniable nature; – the cause is serious, so it has a certain degree of gravity, with harmful consequences for the employer, thus requiring the dismissal of the employee; – if, following the principle of good faith, the employer has used, prior to dismissal, all the other possible legal remedies, so that the dismissal had only been a last resort. -
The Romanian Labour Code (Article 80) provides that, in case the dismissal was made groundlessly or unlawfully, the court will decide its cancellation and will order the employer to pay a compensation in cash. If the employee expressly requests it, in addition, the court will restore the parties to the situation prior to the issuance of the act of dismissal (therefore it will decide the reinstatement of the employee to the position held). If the employee does not request to be reinstated to the position held, the individual labour contract will cease de jure on the date when the judgment remains final. Whereas the regulation of the Labour Code in the matter (the reinstatement to the position held, if the employee so requests) is, in the author’s opinion, overly rigid, a series of de lege ferenda proposals are made in this study, in the sense of promoting a more pliable (flexible) solution, as regards the mandatory reinstatement to the position, if the employee so requests, in a given case.
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Within the new Romanian law for preventing insolvency and for insolvency (Law No 85/2014) a regulation of novelty is represented by the provisions of Article 182 (1) and (3), according to which the judicial administrator/judicial liquidator may be held liable for exercising his duties in bad faith or in gross negligence, but not if he acts in good faith within the limits of the duties provided by the law and of the available information. This new regulation in the matter is analyzed in detail in this study. -
The amendments brought to the new Civil Procedure Code by the Law No 138/2014, especially in the matter of enforcement, have produced significant mutations in the matter of administrative disputes as well. In the context of the amending provisions brought to the Law on administrative disputes No 554/2004 by the Law No 138/2014, this study intends to make an analysis of the judicial remedies that may be exercised against the judgments delivered by the background courts in matters of administrative disputes, as well as an analysis of the procedure of enforcement of the final judgments, delivered by these courts.
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The author of this study proposes an analysis of the will of the legislator manifested by the introduction of the institution of preliminary chamber judge. Within this study it is made a brief comparison of this institution with some national legislative precedents, but also in relation to the regulations of other states.
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The remand on custody and the preventive detention are placed among the most important institutions of criminal processual law. The adoption of the new criminal processual legislation regarding the remand on custody and the preventive detention raises the question of analysing the elements of novelty contained by the new legal provisions, as well as the question of their compliance with the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights. -
The idea of this study has as starting point the „ambiguity” which, under the influence of the current Community and internal regulations, floats over the legal distinction between „designs” and „models”, as well as over their legal nature. Thus, the common definition reserved by the internal and Community regulations for the design and for the model, as well as their alternative or cumulative use in the legal texts convincingly support the existence of this „normative ambiguity”. This „legal reality” is accompanied by the non-existence of some doctrinal concerns for arguing the specificity of designs and of models, mostly by reference of one to the other, but also by reference of these to other kinds of intellectual creation. In fact, as this issue has been approached in the Romanian doctrine, the authors confine themselves, as a rule, only to take over some theses from the foreign legal literature, especially from French one, being less concerned with their logical and legal grounding.
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The current Civil Code advances a detailed regulation of the reparation of damage in case of tort liability, the most important matter of this institution. Being of deep impact in practice, the need for clarity of the new legal provisions is greater than in any other area of regulation. The study proposes their text analysis, emphasizing some shortcomings of the legal terminology used, of the systematization of the matter, but there are reported, in particular, some questionable solutions contrary to the European trends in matters of tort liability.
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In the context of integration of Romania into the European Union and of the normative acts adopted by the Romanian legislator in order to ensure the compatibility of the internal law with the European Union law, the tax disputes and, in particular, tax administrative disputes are conferred a great importance. In the ambiance of the European rules and of our internal law, this study intends to analyze several aspects regarding tax administrative disputes, as well as the application of the principle non bis in idem in the matter of tax administrative disputes, in relation to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights and of the European Court of Justice of the European Union. -
Considered by the authors of the Civil Code of 2009 a „traditional reality in Romania”, currently the engagement has become a „legal reality”, being regulated by Articles 266–270 of the Civil Code. Without „applauding” or „disavowing” the appearance of this unusual legal institution, we find that the reactions of the specialised literature have remained at their „first steps”. However, they are mostly marked by theses from the French doctrine as well, provided that, paradoxically, the French Civil Code, even if it defines the engagement (Article 515–8), does not devote to it other legal rules as well. Wishing to be a contribution to the „continuing effort of interpretation”, this study is based, primarily, on the logical and legal, systematic and systemic analysis of the provisions of Articles 266–270 of the Civil Code. -
This study falls within the so much present problems of civil liability of professionals for malpractice. Starting from the arguments of a jurisprudential solution concerning the lawyer’s liability for the damage caused to the clients or to the third parties, the article intends to present the regulation, the special conditions, the legal nature and the foundation of this hypothesis of liability. By her conclusions the author supports the idea that the civil liability of the lawyer is a separate and autonomous professional civil liability.
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After the author has analyzed in a previous study the need to take into account the legitimate defence in the field of cybercrime and has emphasized the aspects of the conditions of the attack, in this material there are analyzed the legitimate retaliation and the state of necessity. In this context, the author has tried to emphasize the problems that may arise in relation to the conditions relating to defence (legitimate retaliation), also seeking to provide a theoretical framework capable of providing applicability to the institution of self-defence. An important aspect analyzed in this paper has been the putative self-defence, which could be a key aspect in the discussion on the legitimate retaliation. Equally, it has been examined inclusively the institution of the state of necessity, also drawing conclusions on the relationship between this institution and the institution of self-defence.
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One of the main innovations introduced by the new Criminal Procedure Code is the possibility of concluding a plea bargaining agreement between the defendant and the prosecutor. Where there is evidence to confirm that the defendant is the perpetrator of the deed subject to the criminal trial, and he admits the allegations against him, it is possible for the defendant and the prosecutor to mutually agree on the punishment, the method of execution of punishment, as well as on all other aspects related to the criminal side of the case. In this case, the role of the court will be limited only to verifying whether the concluded agreement fulfils or not the conditions provided by law and to confirm it or to reject it. Through this new institution it will decrease the duration of trials where the evidence produced during the criminal prosecution phase proves almost unequivocally the commission of acts by the defendant, allowing the courts to concentrate their resources on the really complex cases.
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In this study, the author proceeds to an exhaustive analysis of the provisions of Articles 519–521 of the new Romanian Civil Procedure Code, which, for the first time in the Romanian legislation, establish „the referral to the High Court of Cassation and Justice for a preliminary ruling for the settlement of some points of law”, also in correlation with some legislations of other states or international jurisdictions in the matter. -
The current Romanian Civil Code (entered into force on 10 October 2011), unlike the previous Romanian civil legislation, regulates a new legal institution, namely the designation of the guardian of the child by his parent in certain situations (Article 114 et seq. of the Civil Code), apart from the appointment of the guardian by the court. Likewise, the Romanian legislation also regulates the designation of the representative of the natural person, under the special conditions of the Law on the mental health and the protection of persons with mental disorders No 487/2002 or according to the Law No 272/2004 on the protection and the promotion of the child’s rights (republished on 5 March 2014) assuming the child’s parents are working abroad. All these assumptions of designation of the guardianship of the child by his parent represent the object of analysis of this study.
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This paper aims to make an analysis of the judicial trials and applications related to the insolvency procedure, from the perspective of the subjects of law who have legal standing in these cases. Having in view general notions and principles of the lawsuit, as well as derogatory provisions provided by the current insolvency law, there have been analyzed relevant aspects referring to the notion of processual parties in these cases, the delimitation of the notion of participants in the insolvency procedure, the criteria for determining the parties and the subjects of law which may be parties in these cases. In relation to concrete applications, actions and contestations related to insolvency, there have been presented not only the manner in which participate in the trial the subjects of the procedure between which there are established litigious legal relations brought to justice (the debtor and the creditors), the judicial administrator and the judicial liquidator, but also the persons who, as they are not participants in the procedure, acquire processual legitimacy in certain determined litigations.
