The goal of this article is to explore the possibilities of the crime victim to defend his/her rights and legal interests in private prosecution procedure, to identify the factors that prevent effective defence of personal ...

In the article tasks of criminalistic tactics and questions related to influence of new Criminal Procedure Code on criminalistic tactics are considered. Criminal procedure is one of the basic sources of criminalistics ...

New challenges arising for the society and the security of the countries, and new threats emerging after well-organised and planned terror attacks in various parts of the world (for example, New York, Madrid, London, etc.) ...

The article discusses the aims and functions of measures of coercion in criminal procedure. Considering the aims of measures of coercion, the authors divide them into measures taken in order to collect information (evidence) ...

The increasing impact of private interests on the decision-making process enables us to talk about dispositiveness in criminal procedure. The changing attitude towards the purpose and objective of criminal procedure ...

The significance of the role of the victim in criminal procedure is undisputed. For the performance of this role, the victim is given procedural rights. However, the practical use of procedural rights of the victim, effective ...

The article analyses the context regarding the presumption of sufficient social maturity regulated by the norms of criminal procedure. Legal norms foresee the possibility to apply the peculiarities of juvenile criminal ...

Several years ago, the Criminal Process Code of the Republic of Lithuania was supplemented with two articles: 9¹ “ Discharge from a Criminal Case or Dismissal of the Case when the Perpetrator and the Victim Reconcile” and ...

As operative activities in recent years ,,came out from underground“ and information (data) collected during operative activities lost the halo of ,,data (information) not for public release“ or ,,material obtained in ...

The status of crime victims is unsatisfactory in Lithunia. The criminal procedure is turning away from the victim and giving the majority attention to a criminal. Because of this the rights of victim are much more narrow ...