The commission of a crime obliges the state to take measures to establish the circumstances that determined it and to identify the perpetrator, in order to finally order, if it is necessary, to engage his criminal liability and apply a penalty provided by the law. The conviction of the defendant for committing a crime may be ordered, according to art. 103 para. (2) C. pr. pen., only if the judicial bodies prove, beyond any reasonable do...

After the entry into force of the new Civil Code, which replaced the notion of visiting program, provided by the old legislation, with a new notion, namely that of maintaining personal ties, there was a change of mentality in the judicial practice in the sense that the right of the parent separated from the child to have a personal relationship with the child means something more or something else than a simple visiting program: it...

In the last quarter of 2020, the legislature decided to make amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, by four laws, i.e. no. 217/2020, no. 228/2020, no. 233/2020, no. 274/2020. In this study, the author aims to make an overview of these changes and the reasons underlying their implementation. Following the analysis of the explanatory memorandum that accompanied each amending law, of some statistical data avail...

The final part of art. 61 para. (1) of the Romanian Constitution consecrates the role of the Parliament as sole legislative authority of the state. The legal doctrine considers the legislative delegation granted to the Government and to the President a genuine exception to the aforementioned rule, but are there any cases in which the feature of the Parliament of unique legislative authority of the state may be doubted? This article aims to ide...

The article deals with the phenomenon of legislative inflation, which, paradoxically, has the effect of impoverishing the law. The author notes the tendency of the laws to become self-sufficient, the excessive regulatory process reducing the possibility for the lawyer to resort to the force of legal logic, especially in the context of the frequent changes in legislation and the repeated use of repeal. ...

The article emphasizes the characteristics of the post-89 legislative process, and especially the role of the Constitution in the national law system: is the Constitution part of the legislative system? Can judges apply the Constitution in the litigations they decide on? Can the Constitution be the only legal basis for a judgment? The author proposes a change of perspective: instead of defining legislation as the positive law of a coun...

The article analyzes the influence of the development of digital services and technologies on the legislative process. Technological developments cannot be ignored by the legal system or the legislative powers of states, and sooner or later parliaments and governments will need to provide the citizen with the opportunity to understand and participate in the legislative process, while eliminating complicated procedures. The author emphasizes t...

The purpose of the study is the logical-legal analysis of the provisions of art. 29 of Law no. 272/2004 and art. 264 C. civ. Devoted to the child’s freedom to express his opinion in relation to any matter concerning him, respectively to his right to be heard in any administrative or judicial procedure that also concerns him. The analysis is, above all, critical, both in terms of the disregard of the principle of the supremacy of t...

In our study we endeavour to analyse the semantic content of the authority of res judicata through the prism of its positive effect. We present the initial concept of the legislator, which imposed the existence of a triple identity of parties, object and cause of the litigation in order to benefit from the presumption of truth associated with res judicata. We show that this concept later underwent multiple metamorphoses first by the differenti...

The right to petition falls within the category of the essential-democratic constitutional means of civic engagement or defence of the legal rights and interests of the person governed – the citizen. The author analyzes how to decide on a petition, noting that more than three decades after the Revolution, there are still difficulties in this field.