PROTECTION CRIME WITNESSES, VICTIMS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS CRIMINAL PROCEDURE  Cover Image

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PROTECTION CRIME WITNESSES, VICTIMS AND OTHER PARTICIPANTS CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Author(s): Monika Klejnowska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to show possibility to protection crime witnesses, victims and the others participants criminal procedure (judges, prosecutors, court experts). The text has presented situations when person is a protected witness or victims mainly in sexual offences, kidnapping and offences involving assaults, injury or threats of injury. In such cases defendant may attack victims, complainants or witness when they gave evidence for the prosecution. In polish criminal law there are special legal remedy such as: protection prisoners who gave evidence for the prosecution, police personal protection or warrant of leave defendant’s house inhabited also by the victim. Besides, crime victim has right to be informed when defendant leaves prison. The text has turned attention that polish courts and prosecutors should resort to “human right friendly” interpretation in domestic case, in order to avoid conflict between domestic law and human right law.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 70-91
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish