The article examines the UK Bribery Act 2010 as a major reform of corporate criminal law, replacing fragmented anti-corruption legislation with a comprehensive and far-reaching framework.

The article explores the transposition of Framework Decision 2008/913/JHA on combating racism and xenophobia into the Greek legal order and situates this process within the broader development of European criminal law as a hybrid and evolving field.

The article examines the proposed European Protection Order (EPO) as a mutual recognition instrument aimed at ensuring continuous protection for victims of crime across EU Member States.

The article examines the evolving role of victims in EU criminal law, highlighting the tension between the development of procedural cooperation mechanisms and the protection of individual rights.

The article analyses the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse and its implementation in Greece, with particular focus on the challenges posed by modern information and communication technologies.

This article focuses on the rights of victims in Slovenian criminal law. The main questions here are whether Slovenia has fully implemented the EU Framework Decision of 15 March 2001 on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings, whether our legislation on victims poses any problems from the viewpoint of this framework decision, and whether Slovenian law offers any additional protection and rights to the victims.
Since the Republic of Slovenia became an independent state in 1991, there have been many changes to our criminal law. The Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) and Criminal Code (CC) first entered into force on 1st January 1995. Both have seen some amendments, and the entire criminal law (both substantive and procedural) was extensively altered after 2005 when numerous special acts were adopted (including the Witness Protection Act and the Act on Compensation of Victims of Violent Criminal Acts ) and a new Criminal Code-1 (CC-1) … Read more