THE APPEAL REGARDING THE LENGTH OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
THE APPEAL REGARDING THE LENGTH OF CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

Summary/Abstract: Among the innovations brought by the new Criminal Procedure Code in force as of February 1, 2014, they included the appeal regarding the length of criminal proceedings, appeal by means of which the parties and the main subjects of proceedings may request the acceleration of the development of proceedings during prosecution and judgment. The new procedure is meant to provide persons who exercise or against whom a legal action is exerted an effective tool to ensure the celerity of criminal proceedings so that the number of cases in which Romania is convicted of violations of the parties’ right to resolve their case in a reasonable time decreases. The main aim of this paper is to present the new regulation and to highlight the weakness of the regulation which may lead to consider the appeal regarding the length of criminal proceedings as an ineffective remedy.

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