Effective Criminal Defence in Eastern Europe
A new book on Effective Criminal Defence in Eastern Europe has just been published. This book is devoted to criminal defence in Eastern Europe, based on a research project conducted in Bulgaria, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova and Ukraine during 2010 and 2011.
This joint statement makes comprehensive recommendations for amendments to the European Union Council’s revised text of the Measure C1 to ensure that the Directive upholds the minimum human rights standards for fair trials.
This joint statement makes comprehensive recommendations for amendments to the European Union Council’s revised text of the Measure C1 to ensure that the Directive upholds the minimum human rights standards for fair trials.
On 27 April 2012 a new law was adopted in the European Union on a right to information in criminal proceedings. This directive ensures that police and prosecutors in the 27 member states provide to everyone who is suspected and detained a written information upon arrest about their rights – in a Letter of Rights – drafted in a simple, everyday language and irrespective whether they ask for it or not. A Letter of Rights will contain practical details of such rights as the right to remain silent, right to a lawyer, right to information about charges and other procedural rights and safeguards.
Fair trial rights: EU governments agree on the right to information in criminal proceedings
EU Member State representatives today agreed on a draft law that will ensure defendants’ right to information in criminal proceedings wherever they are in the EU.
The CCBE is alarmed by the recent position taken by five Member States regarding the proposed Directive on the right of access to a lawyer in criminal proceedings and on the right to communicate upon arrest.
The open letter is jointly submitted by Irish Council for Civil Liberties, JUSTICE, Fair Trials International, Open Society Justice Initiative, Amnesty International, European Institutions Office and European Criminal Bar Association.
European Commission to guarantee suspects’ rights to speak with a lawyer, inform family of arrest
Access to a lawyer rights are essential for building confidence in the European Union’s single area of justice, especially when suspects are arrested as a result of a European Arrest Warrant.
On 21 April 2011 the ECtHR published its judgment in the case Nechiporuk and Yonkalo v. Ukraine.
The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted on 20 October 2010 the Directive on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings.