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by Gerard COFFEY - article

Codifying the meaning of 'intention' in the criminal law

What constitutes an intention to conmit a criminal offence has proven to be a notoriously difficult concept to define. The issue as to whether the accused intended the consequences of the prohibited act or omission constituting the criminal offence charged in the indictment is a question of fact for the jury to determine based on the evidence tendered at trial in addition to the trial judge's...
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by Jaan GINTER - article

Criminal liability of legal persons in Estonia - a working system still subject to improvement

Estonia introduced criminal liability of legal persons with the adoption of the new Penal Code of 2002. The Estonian courts and public prosecutors have applied the provisions extensively, but so...
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by Andre KLIP and Marlen DANE (Eds.) - book

An additional evaluation mechanism in the field of EU judicial cooperation in criminal matters to strenghten mutual trust

On the 2nd and 3rd of June 2009, the conference on Monitoring and evaluation mechanisms in the field of EU judicial cooperation in criminal matters was held at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht...
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by Lorena BACHMAIER-WINTER in Bernd OPPERMANN (Ed.), " International legal studies: by European scholars of the ELPIS network" - book_chapter

Short remarks on the European enforcement order for uncontested claims: a Spanish perspective

The International Legal Studies (ILeS) of European scholars being collected in the present edition are developed versions of lectures in three languages given at academic occasions of the ELPIS...
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by Pedro CAEIRO in Francesca GALLI and Anne WEYEMBERGH (Eds.), "EU counter-terrorism offences: what impact on national legislation and case-law?" - book_chapter

Concluding remarks

Governments have often claimed that modern international terrorism cannot be handled adequately within the ordinary criminal justice system. Consequently criminal law had to be adapted to fight...
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by Valsamis MITSILEGAS - article

The third wave of third pillar law: which direction for EU criminal justice?

After a period of relative stagnation, the past few months witnessed the adoption of a plethora of legislative instruments under the third pillar. These instruments can be seen as the third wave...
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by Paul DE HERT and Vagelis PAPAKONSTANTINOU - article

The PNR Agreement and Transatlantic anti-terrorism Cooperation: No firm human rights framework on either side of the Atlantic.

Seamless air commuting between the EU and the USA appears to constitute nowadays a much sought-after but nevertheless still elusive cause. The level of co operation between the two parties has...
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