The thesis includes the analysis of the preliminary hearing of the indictment institute as an optional part of criminal proceedings, which follows after bringing an indictment to court. The thesis is focused on summary of theoretical findings, which draws mainly from the commentary literature, but a key focus of the thesis is the analysis of relevant judicial decisions that relate to the institute investigated. The thesis works in particular with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and High Courts, to a lesser extent with decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and several regional courts are used. The text is (except introduction and conclusion) divided into eight parts. The first part contains an explanation of the concept of preliminary hearing of the indictment. Next part of the thesis is focused on the historical development of the preliminary hearing of the indictment, from 1850 to the present. This part also summarizes the most important amendments of the currently effective Criminal Procedure Code. Following parts are focused on explanation of purpose of preliminary hearing of the indictment and explanation of the difference between this and the obligatory review of indictment in accordance with § 181 par. 1 and 185 par. 1 of the Criminal Procedure...

There is a stark regress in the development of international criminal justice, in particular the fight against impunity on the African continent. This study explores various legal aspects that have arisen between Africa and the International Criminal Court (ICC) since the indictment of President al-Bashir of Sudan by the Court. There is a presumption of conflict between some provisions of the Rome Statute, particularly Article 27 and Article 98. The indictment of President al-Bashir ICC has been the epitome of such a presumption. The African Union (AU) is among those opposed to the indictment of President al-Bashir and has requested the Security Council to defer the matter in accordance with Article 16 of the Rome Statute. The regional body has also refused to cooperate with the ICC in the arresting and surrendering of President al-Bashir to the Court on the basis of Article 98. Therefore, this study seeks to critically analyse the indictment of President al-Bashir by the ICC and the AU’s response to the same. The study further explores the legal validity of a deferral by the UN Security Council and the challenges it would will raise. The study also attempts to reconcile article 27 and article 98 of the Rome Statute in the context of President al Bashir’s indictment. In doing so, the study endeavours to weigh the legal elements in both of the arguments offered in support and against the action taken by the ICC. The reason for such a discussion is to investigate the nature of the jurisdiction the Court has upon President al-Bashir by virtue of UN Security Council Resolution 1593(2005), which referred the al Bashir case to the court. The discussion also investigates the nature of the legal obligations on members of the international community including Sudan, to cooperate with the ICC by arresting and surrendering President al-Bashir to the Court. In an effort to garner support for the ICC’s indictment of President al-Bashir, the study also looks at the operation of the principle of complementarity under the Rome Statute and various principles of International Criminal Law that affirm the ICC’s jurisdiction over the situation in Darfur and those principles that speak to the presumed liability of President al-Bashir. Although this study acknowledges the apparent competing demands of justice and peace, it challenges arguments that promote impunity and makes the case for addressing the AU’s concerns relating to the ICC. More importantly, the study suggests that the UN Security Council and the ICC should be consistent and in condemning atrocities wherever they are committed and should be impartial in referring perpetrators of atrocities to the ICC irrespective of their political status. In so doing a clear message may be sent to individuals like President al-Bashir that commission of atrocities will invite international accountability. / Dissertation (LLM)--University of Pretoria, 2013. / Public Law / unrestricted

O presente trabalho analisa a valoração da prova na decisão de pronúncia e os limites à sua motivação, realizando-se, inicialmente, um estudo sobre a origem dessa decisão com base em decisões de ordenamentos jurídicos passados. A regência legal da pronúncia é estudada para a compreensão de sua definição, requisitos, cognição e função que exerce no procedimento do Júri. Em relação à valoração da prova, objeto central do presente trabalho, estabelece-se um critério de decisão com base nos standards de prova da autoria ou da participação. A motivação é estudada para a verificação do funcionamento dos limites impostos pela lei a ela. / This study examines the valuation of proof in the indictment decision and the justification, and where, inictially a study about the origin of this decision based on pás legal decisions. The rulership to indictment is studied to understand its definition, requirements, cognition and the function that performs the procedure os the Jury. Regardin the evidence of proof, the central object of the present study we establish a decision criterion based on the standards of proof to autorship. The justification is studied to verifythe functioning of the limits imposed by law to it

O presente trabalho analisa a valoração da prova na decisão de pronúncia e os limites à sua motivação, realizando-se, inicialmente, um estudo sobre a origem dessa decisão com base em decisões de ordenamentos jurídicos passados. A regência legal da pronúncia é estudada para a compreensão de sua definição, requisitos, cognição e função que exerce no procedimento do Júri. Em relação à valoração da prova, objeto central do presente trabalho, estabelece-se um critério de decisão com base nos standards de prova da autoria ou da participação. A motivação é estudada para a verificação do funcionamento dos limites impostos pela lei a ela. / This study examines the valuation of proof in the indictment decision and the justification, and where, inictially a study about the origin of this decision based on pás legal decisions. The rulership to indictment is studied to understand its definition, requirements, cognition and the function that performs the procedure os the Jury. Regardin the evidence of proof, the central object of the present study we establish a decision criterion based on the standards of proof to autorship. The justification is studied to verifythe functioning of the limits imposed by law to it

The subject of this diploma thesis is the protection of an injured party in criminal proceedings. Throughout the thesis author analyzes the relevant laws, specialized legal literature and case laws. When there is a debate amongst the professional public, author summarizes the key arguments and provides his own perspective. The paper provides a general definition of the term injured party, which includes a positive and negative definition and distinction between the terms injured party and a victim. The author more closely examines when the injured party is not allowed to exercise his rights. There are also described, from the view of current legislation and also de lege ferenda, the circumstances under which a person is not allowed to join the criminal proceeding as an injured party. Furthermore the author breaks down the rights of an injured party with the emphasis being put on the right of the injured party to consent to prosecution and the right to demand for his/her claims to be satisfied in accordance with the 59/2017 Sb., on the use of funds acquired from property penal sanctions imposed in criminal proceedings, which has been in effect for over a year now in March 2019. The paper also examines collateral proceeding, especially the conditions under which the injured party can assert his claim...

This thesis examines the argument that the Republic of Korea-United States Status of Forces Agreement (ROK-U.S. SOFA) affords greater immunities and protections to U.S. service personnel than does the Japan-U.S. SOFA. One significant source of tension for Korean-American relations over the years has been the belief of many Koreans that Japan is given greater authority to prosecute SOFA incidents because A) the Japan-U.S. SOFA is written to Japan's advantage and B) the United States unfairly favors Japan in the application of SOFA Criminal Jurisdiction. This thesis will test the accuracy of those beliefs. It will do this by first comparing the formal provisions in the SOFAs with the two countries. It will then compare their application in high-profile SOFA-related crimes and accidents over the past two decades both in South Korea and Japan to identify any possible pattern of inequity. By comparing the language of both SOFAs today with examples of how the United States has applied that language, this thesis finds that the language and application SOFA Criminal Jurisdiction provisions have changed to favor Korea today compared to Japan. This thesis also finds that the application in both countries has changed to give more deference to Host countries. / Master of Arts

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Hamilton da Cunha Iribure Junior.pdf: 2483637 bytes, checksum: 88eddb6605c9ae94daf5e58eae24c6f6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-09-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Procedural law complies with the task of regulating the exercise of judicial functions, a fundamental activity of Democratic State of Law. In the current constitutional order the Jury Court is recognized and upheld both as law and fundamental individual guarantee. It is perceived as a fundamental human right because people's participation in the trials made by the judiciary. It is the fundamental guarantee that the person who has committed an intentional criminal offense against life can only be condemned by the verdict issued by a People's Court. The jury is a province where there is the exercise of citizenship, revealing itself as a democratic right for the individual to be judged by a board of citizens. The Brazilian legal system provides the procedure of the Jury Court divided into stages. This scaling ensures that the formation of the prosecution of the defendant is given in two very different stages: a preliminary investigation and trial of the case. In the first phase, conducted by a judge, it is discussed the admissibility accusatory. In the trial of the case occurs the trial of the defendant by People´s Court. The judicial decision that examines and accepts the accusation against the defendant is called jury indictment, that terminating the preliminary investigation and forward the accused for trial in the Plenary of the Jury. The indictment has always been present in Brazilian history of criminal procedure, from the time of the Ordinations of the Kingdom. In most foreign jurisdictions is clear that there is a procedural institute with similar function that jury indictment exercises in Brazil. This judicial act represents an important mechanism to control the accusatory activity on the jury procedure to ensure that the cause is only being sent to the Jury if it is in strict conformity with the requirements established in law. Should the judge that decides the jury indictment works with extra caution in the grounds of this decision because this stage of the proceedings of the jury is not to examine the right to punish, but only the right to accuse. Therefore, the excess on the motivation of this judicial act can lead to anticipation of a merit´s judgment to an irregular stage of the process. The jury indictment, interlocutory decision in the proceedings of the jury, is the main object of analysis in this work. In establishing the Democratic State of Law, the Constitution of the Republic established in 1988 as one of its grounds human dignity, the rule that guides the interpreter in the applicability of the standards of the legal system. So this work is has the aim of examining the principles and procedures focused on the jury indictment in the light of that constitutional grounds as a way of being assured the due process of law / Ao Direito Processual cumpre a missão de regulamentar o exercício da função jurisdicional, atividade fundamental do Estado Democrático de Direito. Na ordem constitucional vigente o Tribunal do Júri é acolhido e reconhecido simultaneamente como direito e garantia fundamental do indivíduo. É percebido como um direito humano fundamental devido à participação do povo nos julgamentos proferidos pelo Poder Judiciário. É garantia fundamental na medida em que o indivíduo que tenha praticado uma infração penal dolosa contra a vida somente possa ser condenado pelo veredicto emanado por um Conselho de Sentença do Tribunal Popular. O júri é uma província em que se observa o exercício da cidadania, revelando-se na prerrogativa democrática para que o indivíduo seja julgado por um colegiado de cidadãos. O ordenamento jurídico brasileiro prevê o procedimento do júri dividido em fases. Esse escalonamento garante que a formação da acusação do réu se dê em duas etapas bem distintas: a instrução preliminar e o juízo da causa. Na primeira fase, conduzida por um juiz togado, é discutida a admissibilidade acusatória. No juízo da causa ocorre o julgamento do réu pelo Conselho de Sentença. A decisão judicial que analisa e admite a acusação formulada contra o réu é denominada de pronúncia, esta que encerra a instrução preliminar e encaminha o acusado para o julgamento no Plenário do Júri. A pronúncia sempre esteve presente na história do processo penal brasileiro, desde o tempo em que aqui vigoraram as Ordenações do Reino. Em boa parte dos ordenamentos jurídicos estrangeiros é nítida a existência de um instituto processual com função similar a que exerce a pronúncia no Brasil. Esse ato jurisdicional representa um importante mecanismo de controle da atividade acusatória no procedimento do júri ao assegurar que somente seja enviada à fase de plenário a causa que esteja em rigorosa conformidade aos requisitos estabelecidos em lei. Deve o magistrado que prolata a pronúncia cercar-se de redobrada cautela na fundamentação dessa decisão tendo em vista que nessa fase do procedimento do júri não se analisa o direito de punir, mas tão-somente o direito de acusar. Por conseguinte, o excesso na motivação desse ato judicial pode acarretar a antecipação do julgamento do mérito para uma etapa indevida do processo. A pronúncia, decisão interlocutória no procedimento do júri, é o objeto principal de análise no presente trabalho. Ao instituir o Estado Democrático de Direito, a Constituição da República de 1988 estabeleceu como um dos seus fundamentos a dignidade da pessoa humana, preceito este que orienta o intérprete na aplicabilidade das normas constantes no ordenamento jurídico. No talante dessa premissa o vertente trabalho está pavimentado com o intuito maior de analisar os princípios e regras processuais incidentes na pronúncia à luz do citado fundamento constitucional, como forma de se ver assegurado o devido processo legal

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:20:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TESE DOUTORADO ALZIR SALES COIMBRA.pdf: 1993916 bytes, checksum: a7f383b4035d7299e14c689eb23ad04a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-12-11 / This research is concerned with the scientific discussion about the writing and composition of Amos Book and aims primarily to present and criticize some hypotheses about the literary layers, which could belong to the prophet himself, and the later additions. As a first step, in order to approach on the writing problem, this study examines some contributions of both foreign experts and Brazilian scholars, and attempts to criticize their hypotheses concerning the final writing of Amos Book. The writing question of Amos Book has been indeed subject of an exciting discussion among many scholars. Secondly, the diachronic reading is fulfilled with the synchronic study of Amos Book, namely with the debate about the structure not only of the composition at Amos 6,1-14, but also of the whole book. Then, from the evaluation of the outcome of the investigation, this study employs the historicalcritical method and analyses the composition at Amos 6,1-14 as a meaningful literary unit. For such analysis, some previous considerations concerning the literary gender of lamentation, the prophetic indictment of the social injustice, and the institution of the marzeah feast are undoubtedly very important. So forth, an analysis of the literary phenomenon of the prophetic pamphlets and of the social organization, which could be behind their authorship, is made as well. Therefore, and considering the challenge of the recent methodological proposals, this research aims at giving an specific contribution to the study of Amos. It strives to demonstrate that in respect to Am 6,1-14 the reader is in front of a collective creation. In fact, the above-mentioned composition results not only from the oral preaching of Amos himself but also on the grounds of its composite form from the prophetic voices of the people, which on the impulse of the Spirit have confirmed Amos severe indictment and even have fulfilled it with their own experiences and sufferings. Finally an unpretentious excursus examines Amos Book in a wider literary context, in order to give a survey of the debate about the writing process of the Book of the Twelve as a whole, particularly from its eschatological perspective through the theological category of the Day of the Lord.(AU) / Esta pesquisa se dedica ao debate em torno da redação e composição do livro de Amós, e pretende, primeiramente, apresentar e criticar algumas hipóteses sobre as camadas literárias, que poderiam pertencer ao próprio profeta, e os acréscimos tardios. Como primeiro passo para uma abordagem do problema redacional, este estudo examina algumas contribuições de especialistas estrangeiros e de estudiosos brasileiros, e tenta fazer um julgamento crítico de suas hipóteses sobre a redação do livro de Amós. A questão do processo redacional do livro de Amós tem sido, na verdade, objeto de uma animada discussão entre muitos estudiosos. Em segundo lugar, a leitura diacrônica é complementada com o estudo sincrônico do livro, isto é, com o debate em torno da estrutura não só da composição em Amós 6,1-14, mas também do livro todo. Em terceiro lugar, a partir da avaliação do resultado da pesquisa e com a utilização do método histórico-crítico, a composição em Amós 6,1-14 é analisada como uma unidade literária de sentido. Para tal análise são, indubitavelmente, relevantes algumas considerações prévias sobre o gênero literário da lamentação, a denúncia profética da injustiça social e a instituição do banquete do marzeah. Em seqüência, esta tese analisa o fenômeno literário dos panfletos proféticos e da organização social, que poderia estar por detrás de sua autoria. Por isso, e levando em conta o desafio de novas propostas metodológicas, esta pesquisa visa dar uma contribuição específica ao estudo de Amós. Ela se empenha em demonstrar que, em relação a Amós 6,1-14, o leitor está diante de uma criação coletiva. De fato, a mencionada composição é o resultado não só da pregação oral do próprio profeta, mas também, em razão de sua forma compósita, das vozes proféticas de pessoas oprimidas, que, impulsionadas pelo Espírito, confirmaram a denúncia severa de Amós e até a completaram com suas próprias experiências e sofrimentos. Finalmente, um despretensioso excursus examina o livro de Amós em um contexto literário mais amplo, para dar uma visão geral do debate em torno do processo redacional do Livro dos Doze Profetas, particularmente a partir de sua perspectiva escatológica mediante a categoria teológica do Dia do Senhor.(AU)

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