Although in the last 10 years in Italy there has been a greater sensitivity by the legislature to the trafficking, including in relation to international commitments such as the Palermo Protocol, there are still difficulties and deficiencies in affording effective jurisdictional protection for...

Communication subscribes to the notion of transparency in the legal working of authorities who have to publish permanently their work. Transparency involves a mutual communication between authorities and citizens in several aspects: access to public information, transparency in the decisions...

In the course of criminal proceedings, all means of evidence specified by law and all evidentiary procedures may be used without restriction in Hungary. However there are two general features in the area of evidence in Human Trafficing crimes. There is a shortage of evidence, and there is no...

This paper deals with two aspects referring to the procedure of the preliminary chamber, which could raise questions about the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights: is the judge of the preliminary chamber compatible to judge the case on the...

Cybercrime is criminal activity done using computers and the Internet. This includes anything from downloading illegal music files to stealing millions of dollars from online bank accounts. Cybercrime also includes non-monetary offenses, such as creating and distributing viruses on other...

Once with the spread and use of computers and Internet on a larger scale, trafficking in persons has conquered a new space: cyberspace. The recruitment of victims through the Internet, the use of e-mails for the moral coercion of the victim and ultimately, the exploitation of victims with the...

The new legal definition of the offense as provided by the Romanian Penal Code (Art. 15) from 2009 refers to a deed that complies with a statutory description, is culpable, unjustified and imputable to the person who committed it. The initial Draft proposal to eliminate the mention about...

One of the most important objectives of the European Union is the creation, maintaining and development of a space of liberty, security and justice, objective which can be attained only under the circumstances of achieving a specific cooperation activity in the criminal system among the member...

Regardless a convicted person had been noticed or not about the proceedings against it, as long as it was tried and convicted in absentia it is a serious, just and solid reason not to request retrial in cases of extradition under a European arrest warrant.

Answering to the exigencies of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, which also guarantees among others, the right to get access to an independent and impartial court toward the executive power, the Law no. 281 from 2003, art. 2781 has been introduced in the Criminal...