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In the present article the author examines the question of restriction of liberty in the light of the amended Criminal Code of 2015. In the new Civil Code restriction of liberty has become a means of a flexible response to a crime, making it possible to shape the severity of this penalty in a variety of ways. The amended provisions of the Criminal Code have considerably expanded the scope of its application, making it possible to impose this penalty not only in the case of petty and medium-severity but also serious offences. Restriction of liberty has become a penalty competing with fines and, above all, with suspended custodial sentence, the application of which, under the new provisions, should be considerably limited.
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This article attempts to look at selected new phenomena that have the characteristics of violence or are more or less associated with violence. The author presents the main characteristics of flam‑ ing, sexting (including sextortion), exclusion and happy slapping, while attempting to answer the question of which provisions of the Criminal Code they may involve. The problem of other selected phenomena concerning violence and crimes on the network which have recently gained the atten‑ tion of the media and researchers, is indicated.
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The subject of the assessment is a petition requesting the change of Article 245 § 1 of CCP by indicating a method of contact of a detainee with an advocate or a legal advisor. The petitioner suggests that the code should state that the contact can also be made by means of remote communication, including telephone or electronic means of communication. In the opinion of the author, the submitted proposal to supplement the article will not change the current normative scope of this regulation. Consequently, it will not improve the legal situation of the detainee.
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According to the author, the suggested amendment is not justified. Prosecution of displaing pornographic materials in a way which enables minors to access them, is already regulated in the Polish Criminal Code. Proposed amendments would be a duplication of existing provisions, additionally causing interpretation problems. The other suggested change – introducing a definition of pornography – would not be useful in solving interpretation problems, since that definition has many drawbacks.
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The Bill is an attempt to provide state authorities with effective instruments to counteract corruption in public life, but the detailed legislative proposals contained therein may hinder the full implementation of this assumption. Among others the category of corruption offenses was drafted in a selective way, linking the tightening of the punishment policy with the conviction for only some of them. Failure to include some corruption offenses in the Bill will lead to an unjustified privileging of the policy of punishing corrupt practices in certain areas of public and economic life. The author also referred to some of the proposals to introduce employment bans, pointing out that they would be superfluous to the applicable regulations of the Criminal Code, as well as they would lead to consequences which would be difficult to accept from the perspective of seeking a penalty adequate to the committed prohibited act, the real severity of sanctions and the principle of equal punishment.
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Pursuant to the Code of Penal Procedure, any person, upon having learned about the commission of a crime prosecuted ex officio, bears a social obligation to notify a Public Prosecutor or the Police about it. In case of certain crimes that social obligation is transformed into a legal one concerning an immediate notification to law enforcement authorities about the commission, attempt or preparation of any of these crimes. Failure to fulfil the legal obligation to notify law enforcement authorities shall result in committing a crime punishable by up to 3 years’ imprisonment.
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The author assesses a draft amendment, which, in the opinion of its sponsor, assumes an improvement of the substantive and legislative level of the legal acts in question. In the view of the author of the opinion, some of the proposed amendments to the Criminal Code raise doubts and may cause a limitation of the hitherto judicial discretion and penal reaction of the court. Amendments to the statutory definitions set forth in the Criminal Code may also translate into depenalization of certain types of criminal offences. With regard to the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the author assesses that allowing the appointment of a court-appointed attorney in the application of consensual procedures may improve the actions undertaken in consensual proceedings and ensure that the interests of the suspect are properly represented.
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In the article, the authors refer to the criterion of generic identity as one of the determinants of the construction of similar offences under the Polish Criminal Code. The construction of similar offences itself is significant from the point of view of certain institutions of criminal law. The authors point to the concepts of understanding generic identity functioning in the doctrine of criminal law and take as a point of reference the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Lublin of 10th March 2021, which stated that the crime of unlawful deprivation of liberty is similar to the crime of rape due to the criterion of generic identity.
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The author analyses the modifications proposed in the Bill to amend the Criminal Code, consisting, inter alia, in the aggravation of the penalty for the offence of espionage, the addition of new qualified types of that crime, extending the penalty to the stage of preparation, as well as the introduction of the definition of an act of aggression. The amending Bill provides for a number of amendments to the statutes regulating the functioning of the Internal Security Agency, the Foreign Intelligence Agency, the Central Anticorruption Bureau, the Military Counterintelligence Service and the Military Intelligence Service.
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The constitutional complainant challenged the constitutionality of a part of a Criminal Code provision that states: “anyone who, in order to achieve a material benefit, prevents or obstructs a public tender, or acts in concert with another entity to the detriment of the owner of property or an entity or institution for which the tender is to be held is liable to imprisonment for up to 3 years”, insofar as it provides for criminal liability for entering into an agreement with another person. The author of the opinion concludes that the statutory regulation challenged by the applicant does not violate the principle of specificity of criminal law provisions. Although the regulation raises certain doubts regarding its interpretation, they do not render the addressees of this provision unable to carry out a rational test of the foreseeability of criminal law consequences of their conduct. The challenged provision is in compliance with the Constitution.
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The draft amendment, which is the subject of the reviewed petition, contains an introduction to the indicated provision of the Criminal Code of a new type of a punishable act – the use of terms: Polish death camps, Polish concentration camps, Polish Holocaust, polnische Vernichtungslager, polniche Häuser des Todes and other terms contrary to facts. The author of the opinion claims that the petition cannot be considered justified due to juridical and systemic reasons, as it concerns the matter which is currently already legally regulated. Moreover, cases of falsifying history to the detriment of the State or the Polish Nation, which take place outside of the borders of the Republic of Poland, will remain beyond the sphere of the amendment’s normative influence because of the condition of a dual criminalisation (in Poland and abroad) according to Article 111 para. 1 of the Criminal Code.
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The author analyses the proposed amendments to the Criminal Code. She considers the introduction of the concept of “sexual autonomy” proposed in the bill as unnecessary, due to the existence of the notion of human freedom in the sexual sphere, considered both on a negative and positive level. The bill assumes, inter alia, a change in the statutory features of the crime of rape, which may result in decriminalization of certain cases that are currently covered by the “deception” features in the crime of rape. The author raises substantive doubts about the bill, which in her opinion require further legislative work.
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The article contains an analysis of the statutory features of the offense of violating the freedom to vote under Article 250 of the Criminal Code and presents postulates de lege ferenda. De lege lata, it is only punishable to influence voters by using force, unlawful threat or by abusing a relationship of dependence. According to the author, the perpetrator‘s actions should have been supplemented with “deceit”. The proposed modification will ensure greater protection of the protected value specified in Article 250, including against the current forms of electoral manipulation, such as the provision of fake news or deep fakes using microtargeting of voters.
Prawo
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2016
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issue 321
215-228
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The article is devoted to state of necessity in the draft Polish Criminal Code of 1932. The author discusses the origins of the construct, its place in the criminal codes in force in Poland, the work of the Criminal Law Section of the Codification Commission of the Polish Republic, and the legal structure of the regulations in the draft Polish Criminal Code. He demonstrates that the state of necessity in the draft Polish Criminal Code of 1932 was shaped by in-depth reflection in the Criminal Law Section taking into account the European doctrine of law and European legislation. When it comes to the state of necessity, the draft Polish Criminal Code sought to apply to it the latest solutions known from the existing legislation.
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Die Bearbeitung betrifft die Konstruktion des Notstandes in dem Entwurf des polnischen Strafgesetzbuches aus dem Jahre 1932. Vorgestellt wurde die Genese dieser Institution, ihre Regulierung in den auf polnischem Gebiet geltenden Strafgesetzbüchern, der Verlauf der Arbeiten im Rahmen der Sektion Strafrecht in der Kodifikationskommission der Republik Polen und die rechtliche Konstruktion der Institution in dem Entwurf des polnischen Strafgesetzbuches. Es wurde gezeigt, dass der Notstand in dem Entwurf des polnischen Strafgesetzbuches aus dem Jahre 1932 seine Gestalt aufgrund vertiefter Überlegungen im Rahmen der Sektion Strafrecht nahm, die das Werk der europäischen Rechtsdoktrin und der europäischen Gesetzgebung berücksichtigten. Das charakteristische Merkmal des polnischen Entwurfes des Strafgesetzbuches im Bezug auf diese Institution war die Bestrebung, sie unter Beachtung der neusten Entwicklungen auf Grund der damals bekannten Gesetzgebung zu gestalten.
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The forensics of documents in Malta is constantly increasing in demand. This need is a reaction to the control of human trafficking and the international threat of terrorism, amongst other crimes in Malta and Europe. Besides the constant updates in the Criminal Code, document fraud analysts are increasingly in demand to ensure a more thorough and scientific analysis of forgeries of documents, stamps, seals and private writings.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of a structural change made to the regulations of the Criminal Code under the Amendment Act dated 20th February 2015, which is based on the exclusion of forfeiture from the catalog of penal measures, which gave it a distinct legal characterThe legislature repealed Article 44 § 8 CC relating to the transition of the ownership of forfeiture objects to the State Treasury, amended Article 45 § 3 CC, repealing § 4 and § 6 and added Article 45a CC. In light of these changes, the author explains the basic concepts and discusses the current conditions of forfeiture.
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The article concerns the basic legal consequences of the amendment of the Criminal Code on 20th of February2015 in terms of limitation criminality and enforcement of the sentence. There are presented the changes introduced an amendment to their legal effects, signaling errors and any perceived need for further changes to the regulations.
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Artykuł dotyczy podstawowych skutków prawnych nowelizacji Kodeksu karnego z dnia 20 lutego 2015 r. w zakresie przedawnienia karalności i przedawnienia wykonania kary. Przedstawiono zmiany wprowadzane nowelizacją, ich skutki prawne, sygnalizując dostrzeżone błędy i ewentualne potrzeby w zakresie dalszych zmian przepisów.
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In the 20th century, the perception and quality of political crimes underwent significant changes, which led to the creation of constitutional law. Act III of 1921 was the first piece of legislation that substantially tightened the scope of crime against the state, but because of precisely defined offences and related judicial practice, it could be avoided that deeds, which essentially fall within the scope of the exercise of fundamental rights, could fall under the Act. The following significant criminal law, which strengthened existing provisions to an extent that provided a good basis for the establishment of a later Communist dictatorship, was brought about by the persistence of Soviet presence following the World War II.
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The author of the petition postulates the introduction of Article 25 para. 3a of the Criminal Code, in which the privilege of impunity for a person crossing the borders of necessary defense in a situation of defense against an unlawful, direct assault directed at legal rights set out in that regulation, would be guaranteed. It is concluded in the opinion that a more appropriate solution would be to link the non-subject to punishment of persons crossing the boundaries of the necessary defense with a more universal and capacious formula of “justifying the crossing of the limits of necessary defense by the circumstances accompanying the attack.” Thus the petition does not seem to be justified. The mere fact that a person crossing the boundaries of defense necessary would not be subject of the penalty only due to the fact that he/she acts in defense of certain legal rights, made in isolation from other important elements of the incident, reduces the assessment of his/her behavior and may lead to mandatory release from penalties in socially unacceptable cases.
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