The article reveals the constitutional doctrine of taxes as developed in the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and deals with problematic aspects of this doctrine. It is investigated how the Constitutional Court ...

The article discusses whether a member state of the European Community can implement and apply the principle of state liability for the acts of the courts of last instance without infringing the principles that have ...

After registration of their marriage, a man and a woman acquire a new legal status: they become spouses and create family relations, accompanied by specific rights and duties. The realisation of these rights and duties may ...

In the article the results of a large multi-disciplinary study of 521 murders in Lithuania is presented. The aim of this study is to investigate the suitability of the most important modern criminological theories for the ...

Human trafficking is a human rights violation and a crime of human dignity and integrity, which may lead to the enslavement of victims One of the most dangerous human rights violations threatening the international community ...

Though regulation of relations between the State and the Church is vested to the remit of cantons according to the provisions of Article 3 and 72.1 of the Swiss Federal Confederation Constitution, the ‘sovereignty of the ...

The aim of the article is to reveal the concept of a final court decision in criminal procedure law. A final court decision in the Lithuanian criminal procedure law may be: a judgement of the courts of first instance; a ...

The article addresses problems associated with the structure of the offices conducting law enforcement functions. In the course of the study, analysis is carried out on the structural element – the law enforcement institution. ...

This article analyzes the peculiarities of the unitary state structure model entrenched in the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania in 1992. The author first analyzes the features of the unitary state structure and ...

The idea to implement the function of public order protection through municipalities is new in Lithuania. There is no scientific and practical literature on this issue. Thus the author bases his ideas on the experience and ...