The article discusses ways of new regulation of evidence gathering in the new Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of Lithuania. It is proposed to divide the ways of evidence gathering as follows: questioning, ...

Main trends in criminal justice in the three Baltic countries were investigated. The research has shown quite different (even opposite) trends in criminal law and criminal procedure, on the one hand, in Lithuania and Latvia, ...

In the article the concepts of internal waters and jurisdiction are analysed. It is noted that the criminal jurisdiction in states internal waters was formed upon the decision of courts of France and Great Britain on the ...

The author discusses the application of death penalty in Western Europe, Scandinavia and other countries of the world during several hundreds of years. In the article, the current situation in Lithuania and the problem of ...

The connection between too big attraction of the ruler’s power to “citizens” rights and growth of the lack of respect to the law in practical people’s relationship is discussed. The Lithuanian Statute being separated from ...

The new Latvian Criminal Code is reviewed. The General part consist of 69 articles. The legislator refused to include into this Part the sector on aims of Criminal Law. They also exluded concepts like "especially dangerous ...

The article deals with very important for the so-called new democracies constitutional control issues of protection of the information freedom. This freedom is vital to the status of man of modern day society. The foundations ...

Under the influence of new, humanistic approaches to offences by judicial reforms in 1864 in Vilenskoy region, just as in the whole Russian Empire, public was turned to problems of struggle with criminality, first of all ...

Recently new draft of the Lithuanian Criminal Code was submitted to the Lithuanian Parliament. Principal provisions of the new Criminal Code and their implications on crime policy are being investigated. The categories of ...

The article deals with new regulations regarding crimes against humanity in the Draft Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania, Special Part, Chapter 1. Through comprehensive analysis of various aspects of the said crimes ...