One of the major aims of the AVIDICUS project was to assess the viability and reliability of video-mediated interpreting in criminal proceedings from an interpreting perspective. There are already many instances of video-mediated interpreting in criminal proceedings (and other legal proceedings), and given the new European Directive on the rights to interpretation and translation in criminal pr...

The article deals with recodification of Slovak criminal proceedings. It is divided into three sections. first section focused on the early idea national law and introduction innovations While second adoption new Criminal Proceeding Code No. 301/2005 Zb. understanding “redesigned” proceedings, third necessary improvement proceedings in light electronic monitoring persons.

The treatment of juveniles within the criminal justice systems is a matter of great variety in the 11 European countries studied comparatively. The study focuses on the age of criminal responsibility, ways to divert juvenile offenders from the criminal justice system or avoid criminal justice responses to them, juvenile proceedings and special reactions and sanctions. In spite of different appr...

Sovereign citizens hold a variety of beliefs that challenge the legitimacy of the United States government and criminal justice system. In criminal cases, sovereign citizens typically raise a variety of seemingly strange objections to the proceedings that can cause court participants to believe the defendant is not competent to stand trial. The author's case files were reviewed to identify all ...

The participation of victims in criminal proceedings is generally a rather new phenomenon. While there is a certain tradition of victim participation as ‘‘partie civile’’ in the criminal proceedings of some national jurisdictions, it is a novelty in international criminal trials. The drafters of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Statute chose to design a rather broad victim participation s...