ECBA Spring conference 2016, Vilnius, Lithuania

22 and 23 April 2016

Improve Justice: INQUISITORIAL or ADVERSARY CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS?

Programme

General Information

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CONFERENCE REPORT

Vilnius, the baroque city of the Baltic, proudly hosted the 2016 ECBA Spring Conference.

The highly interesting topics of the Conference included the comparison and analysis of the question between inquisitorial and adversary criminal proceedings, always with the aim of improving European Justice.
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CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS (PDF)

Improve Justice: INQUISITORIAL or ADVERSARY CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS

• Trends in the Slovenian Criminal Procedures
  Helena Devetak
• Shift towards adversarial system - Fact finding
  Vladimir Hrle, LLM

Projects and working groups

• Project on implementation of measures A, B, C-1 of the Road Map 2009 (Trainac)
  Peter McNamee, CCBE
• Remedies in National Legal Systems when Implementing Directive 2013/48/EU (on the right to access to a lawyer) Anneli Soo, PhD
  Speech
  Handout

Ne bis in idem and conflicts of jurisdiction in the EU – Panel

• Documents used for the panel discussion
  • ACTS ADOPTED UNDER TITLE VI OF THE EU TREATY
    COUNCIL FRAMEWORK DECISION 2009/948/JHA of 30 November 2009 on prevention and settlement of conflicts of exercise of jurisdiction in criminal proceedings
  • Extradition Act 2003
  • Draft Proposals for the prevention and resolution of conflicts of jurisdiction in criminal matters in the European Union
    ISSUES PAPER - February 2016
  • Eurojust Guidelines
  • Prevention and Settlement of Conflicts of Exercise of Jurisdiction in Criminal Law - QUESTIONNAIRE
• Some notes about the legal framework of the principle “ne bis in idem” in the criminal law of the Slovak Republic
  Ondrej Laciak
• Ne bis idem in Finland
  Tommi Koivistoinen

Recent developments and proposed reforms affecting the legal profession in the European Union.

• National Report Germany
  Heiko Ahlbrecht
• UPDATE OF KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN SPANISH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RELEVANT TO PRACTITIONERS IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS.
  Prof. Dr. Jaime Campaner Muñoz
• Release from criminal liability of legal entities in Lithuania
  Arturas Gutauskas
  Speech
  Handout
• IMPROVE JUSTICE: INQUISITORIAL OR ADVERSARY CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS
  Dominique Inchauspé, France