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by Liljana SELINSEK - article

Electronic evidence in the Slovene Criminal Procedure Act

In October 2009, the Slovene legislator adopted an Act Amending the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA-J). With this law, two new articles entered the Criminal Procedure Act: article No. 219.a and article No. 223.a. Both articles regulate basic standards (guidelines) for the collection of electronic evidence for criminal proceedings, and are based on the fact that in the great majority of cases, it...
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by Matthias J. BORGERS - article

Mutual recognition and the European Court of Justice: The meaning of consistent interpretation and autonomous and uniform interpretation of Union law for the development of the principle of mutual recognition in criminal matters

Since the Tampere European Council, now ten years ago, hard work has been done within the third pillar of the European Union (EU) on innovation or, rather, streamlining of the legal assistance...
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by Valsamis MITSILEGAS - article

The European Union and the Globalisation of Criminal Law

In the new post-Cold War security era, there is a perception that the nature of cross-border security threats has changed. The need to respond to these new threats has led to a proliferation of...
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by Marta MUÑOZ DE MORALES ROMERO - article

From Nothing to having it all? The Importation of Identity Theft by the UE

The basic purpose of this article is  to analyze the evolution of this criminal offence in a specific supranational organization, the European Union, from its most remote origins up to the...
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by Estella BAKER - article

The European Union's "Area of Freedom, Security and (Criminal) Justice" ten years on

Ten years ago it became a formal objective of the European Union to transform itself into an "Area of Freedom, Security and Justice". As the second five-year programme to turn that objective into...
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by John R. SPENCER - article

Implementing the European Arrest Warrant: A Tale of How Not to Do it

The broad aim of the Extradition Act 2003 was to simplify extradition. It is a controversial piece of legislation. For its supporters, it is a welcome law ensuring that those who commit crimes in...
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by Robert ROTH in Paola GAETA (Ed.), "The UN Genocide Convention : A commentary" - book_chapter

The extradition of génocidaires

This book is a much-needed Commentary on the Genocide Convention. It analyses and interprets the Convention thematically, thoroughly covering every article, drawing on the Convention's travaux...
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