Despite the improvement of forensic investigations, numerous deficiencies regarding the completion of criminal trials are maintained, which were also referred to in the Statement of Reasons in the current Code of Criminal Procedure, in which there were complaints raised about the lack of speed of criminal trials, significant social, financial and human costs, overloading of prosecutor’s offices and courts, excessive duration of procedu...

There are many cases in which the criminal action is initiated ex officio, for crimes in which there are no injured individuals. Some cases are finalized through acquittal solutions, after which the state would be obliged to answer patrimonially for the damages caused by judicial errors, according to the constitutional provisions. Part of these damages consist of legal expenses, which include attorney’s fees, travel and accommodation e...

The National Integrity Agency issued an evaluation report by which it decided that the mayor of a commune violated the legislation on the legal regime of regime of incompatibilities by concurrently exercising certain activities specific to the natural person merchant. In concrete terms, he was accused for the fact that he also exercised the capacity of a natural person merchant, having obtained income from agricultural activities and s...

The Criminal Procedure Code explicitly provides only for damages in case of miscarriage of justice and in the case of illegal deprivation of liberty. The judicial error is limited to the situations in which, after the final conviction, the case was re-judged and an acquittal was pronounced. No explicit reference is made to the situations in which the criminal action was initiated ex officio and successive acquittals or other non-prosecu...

Law no. 7/1996 provided for the implementation of a national program, aiming at the free registration of buildings in the integrated cadastre and land registry system, realization of the cadastral plan of the buildings and the opening of land books at the level of all administrative-territorial units. In subsequent years there have been numerous changes and legislative amendments, but the results were not what they expected. Gove...