DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITY OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE CROATIAN LAW Cover Image

STEGOVNA ODGOVORNOST VOJNIH OSOBA U PRAVU REPUBLIKE HRVATSKE
DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITY OF MILITARY PERSONNEL IN THE CROATIAN LAW

Author(s): Damir Juras
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Pravni fakultet - Univerzitet u Zenici
Keywords: Disciplinary responsibility; disciplinary proceedings; disciplinary sanctions; military personnel; military discipline

Summary/Abstract: This paper gives an overview of the organization of disciplinary responsibility of military personnel in the Republic of Croatia, and with certain institutes the author gives standpoints of legal theory and jurisprudence. In the introduction the author defines the terms military personnel and disciplinary responsibility, and gives rules of conduct, principles and particularities of service in the armed forces. In the central part of the paper the author defines military discipline and describes the types of violations of military discipline, types of disciplinary sanctions and rules of military disciplinary proceedings. The author emphasizes that military personnel are required to respect the principles of conduct in the military service and beyond. The author concludes that the legislator has legally qualified all possible violations of military discipline and proscribed a sufficient number of sanctions that can be used to achieve the purpose of punishment, as well as that military disciplinary proceedings is regulated in a detailed and clear way.

  • Issue Year: 7/2014
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 473-511
  • Page Count: 39
  • Language: Croatian