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 reason...

Soon after the end of the state of emergency determined by the COVID-19 pandemic in Romania, the Constitutional Court ruled on the provisions that would have allowed the Minister of Health to impose the involuntary hospitalization in the case of persons infected with SARS-CoV-2. The declaration of unconstitutionality of article 25 (2) the second thesis of Law no. 95/2006 on health care reform led to the enactment of the Law no. 136 of 16...

The general data protection regulation is the culmination of much tougher legislation in this area. Most of the companies established according to Law no. 31/1990 does not have to take special measures to comply with this legislation, but all companies must be diligent in their dealings with data subjects and the national supervisory authority. More needs to be done to raise awareness of the obligations in this area, involving authoriti...

The article discusses the possibility for the third party to recover his own legal costs from the losing party, in the case of admissible accessory requests for voluntary intervention. The author notes that in practice this problem has been solved differently, a reason for which he argues in favour of the need to bring an appeal in the interest of the law to the High Court of Cassation and Justice, in order to ensure the correct and con...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the crime of non-compliance with court decisions, on the one hand from the perspective of the requirements of the right to a fair trial that the suspect or defendant should benefit from, and on the other hand from the perspective of the legal consequences produced by the legislative construction represented by the provisions of art. 297 of the Criminal Code, as its objective side was reconfigured ...

The right of preemption in the sale of a good is, as a rule, regulated by law. The main issue of theoretical and practical interest, which is limited to the institution of the right of preemption, is its exercise by its holders. The exercise of the right of preemption in the sale of a good is regulated differently in the provisions of the Civil Code, compared to those contained in the special laws. In the above cont...

The income situation of employees paid from public funds has been a thorny issue since 2004. The law on the status of civil servants at that time enshrined the right to two salary components, which the legislator later suspended. Ruling on this suspension, the Constitutional Court of Romania has shown that, at the expiration of the suspension period, the normative act or the provision affected by the suspension re-enters into force. The...

The article analyzes the application of art. 26(4) of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000, text considered unclear and unconstitutional, from the interpretation of which one cannot infer the beginning and end of the prescription period for the application of the contraventional fine sanction by the National Council for Combating Discrimination. According to the author, previously, the analyzed ordinance text was clear and did ...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an introduction to the concept of whitecollar crime. Specifically, the origin and evolution of such concept will be under examination, by pursuing several theoretical and practical milestones that determined white-collar criminality to eventually stand out as a highly complex criminological phenomenon. From Sutherland’s emerging constructs to the developments brought about by the digital age, the...

The article discusses the issue of reviewing civil judgments following an amicable settlement, including the case of a unilateral declaration at the European Court of Human Rights, given that there is a clear difference between the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code and those of the Civil Procedure Code in the sense that, while the criminal procedure expressly provides for the possibility of review even in case of an amicable se...