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-prosecution so...

In a world that seems to have moved completely online, the temptation to think that the physical world is abandoned and everything can be done from now on in the virtual environment is obvious. But if we look around the corner, we will still find ourselves, those existing in the physical reality. The illusion of the virtual environment is maintained until the appearance of the first real problem, which has a direct impact on the quality of our...

Being based on the subrogation mechanism, the guarantor’s regression transfers tale quale all remedies to the creditor regarding the principal debtor from the creditor to the guarantor. By subrogation to the creditor’s rights, the guarantor intends to benefit from all guarantees accompanying the receivable and ensures the guarantor’s regression against its debtor. When, subsequently to contracting suretyship, in a culpable manner...

The criminal trial represents the activity through which the facts that constitute crimes are ascertained in a timely and concrete manner, thus making it possible to establish the criminal liability of the guilty person on a procedural path that includes the criminal investigation, the preliminary chamber, the trial and the execution of the criminal court decisions. Each procedural stage regulates a distinct phase of examining or solving the p...

Without being ignored in any way by the national legislator, the situation of the minor victim has been substantially improved in terms of the procedural rights regulated in the new criminal procedural legislation. Although there were specific provisions for the protection of this vulnerable category of persons in the previous regulation, the new legislation also took into account the established jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Ri...

The article aims to clarify the controversy over whether extrajudicial forensic expertise represents evidence or not. The beginning of the article deals with some general considerations on the notion of expertise, when and by whom it is ordered, and who can carry out the forensic expertise. Then the results of a comparative study on the regulation of the expertise in criminal and civil law are presented, while demonstrating that...

The study aims to identify the origin, `membership` and developments of international investment law in the set of international law regulations. The merging of these pieces into a legal mechanism was generated by the overflow of sources of legislation, jurisprudence and doctrine. For this study, a coherent mix between transdisciplinary research methods was required, being used in this context, the methods: qualitative and comparative. The inst...

The public procurement complaint involves a financial effort for the person resorting to this administrative-jurisdictional procedural institution, the admissibility of the complaint being conditioned, first of all, by the proof of a guarantee whose amount is customized by the estimated value of the contract subject to the award procedure. In the absence of proof of the guarantee, within the term imposed by the delegated legislator, the compl...

The 21 October 2021 ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union in case ZX (C-282/20) has generated a series of debates on the concrete way in which the Romanian courts must proceed in order to comply with the rulings of the European court. In this article, we will give an overview of what the Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled on, with an emphasis on the important issues for our arguments (A), with further refere...

Especially in the electoral periods a question is being increasingly put forward. This question consists of whether, after the entry into force of the General Data Protection Regulation, the political parties would still have the opportunity to process personal data included in the Electoral Register, and, if met with an affirmative answer, then how do the special norms, included in the electoral legislation, impact the principles introduced b...