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Does the Victim of a Crime Have the Right to a Fair Trail? Remarks on the Protection of Crime Victims in the Light of the Guarantees in the European Convention on Human Rights

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Mezykowska A.
Polish Yearbook of International Law
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2011
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vol. 31
285-313
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None of the provisions guaranteeing the right to a fair trial contained in the principal international agreements were explicitly drafted to assure such a right to victims of crimes. Therefore, over the last two decades one could observe a shift in the attitude of the European Court of Human Rights towards the rights of victims, in order to extend the protection granted under the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights to victims taking part in criminal proceedings. The Court directly extends the rights of victims by elaborating the procedural obligations of States (mainly under Articles 2 and 3 of the Convention), and through a broader understanding of the concept of civil rights and obligations, which enables the extension of the guarantees granted under Article 6 to victims participating in criminal proceedings. The purpose of this analysis is to attempt to answer the questions: under what circumstances in criminal proceedings may victims benefit from the right to a fair trial, and to what extent are they entitled to claim the protection of the guarantees provided for under the Convention?
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Protection of Personal Data of Crime Victims in European Union Law – Latest Developments

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Grzelak A.
Polish Yearbook of International Law
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2018
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vol. 38
209-228
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In EU law a lot of attention has recently been paid to personal data protection standards. In parallel to the development of the general EU rules on data protection, the Members States also develop cooperation between law enforcement agencies and create new information exchange possibilities, including the processing of personal data of participants in criminal proceedings. The aim of this article is to analyse whether the personal data of victims of crime are safeguarded according to the standards of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. For this purpose, the author analyses two directives: 2012/29/EU, which regulates minimum standards of victims of crime; and 2016/680/EU (also known as the Law Enforcement Directive), which regulates personal data processing for the purpose of combating crime. Based on the example of the Polish legislation implementing both directives, the author comes to the conclusion that the EU legislation is not fully coherent and leaves too much margin of appreciation to the national legislator. This results in a failure to achieve the basic goals of both directives. The author expects the necessary reflection not only from the national legislator, but also from the European Commission, which should check the correctness of the implementation of the directives, as well as from national courts, which should use all possible measures to ensure that the national law is interpreted in the light of the objectives of the directives.
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Kilka uwag na tle kompensacyjnej funkcji prawa karnego

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Pływaczewski E. W., Guzik-Makaruk E. M.
Nowa kodyfikacja prawa karnego
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2017
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vol. 43
465-475
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The article is divided into four parts, presenting a restitutive function, from a historical perspective, of compensation in the view of the Criminal Code of 1997, as well as in the view of the Act of 7 July 2005 on State compensation granted to victims of certain prohibited acts. The authors also attempt to summarize and evaluate the amendment. The article is dedicated to the Esteemed Professor Tomasz Kaczmarek, celebrating His jubilee, an Educator of generations of lawyers, an Outstanding representative of the science, whose wide activity and plenteous achievements in various fields indicate great versatility of His interests.
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Indywidualna ocena szczególnych potrzeb ofiary : europejskie standardy a regulacje polskie

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Mazowiecka L.
Archiwum Kryminologii
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2015
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issue XXXVII
253-278
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This article is devoted to discussing a new EU law institution which is about theindividual assessment of the specific needs of victims within the framework ofprotection. The issue is important since the institution for individual assessmentshould be implemented in the Polish system of law, but it also happens to invokemany controversies and misunderstandings. Most accurately it became accepted inthe Directive of the European Parliament and Council 2012/29/EU on 25 October2012, establishing minimum standards for the rights, support and protection ofvictims of crimes, thus replacing Council Framework Decision 2001/220/JHA. Therehad previously been talk about it in two other directives, namely Directive of theEuropean Parliament and Council 2011/36/EU from 5 April 2011 which was aboutpreventing human trafficking and combating it as well as protecting victims, whichreplaced Council Framework Decision 2002/629/JHA, and Directive of the EuropeanParliament and Council 2011/93/EU from 13 December 2011 on combating sexualabuse, the sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, which replacedCouncil Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA. An instrument closer to individualevaluation was also introduced by the European Council Convention for preventingand combating violence against women and domestic violence on 11 May 2011. Analysis of the regulations contained in these documents proved that victims ofcrimes have to be subjected to individual assessment every single time, the basis ofwhich are their personal qualities, type and character of the crime, as well as theirlocation. A particular weight is attached to ensuring the protection of the personalqualities of the victim. Individual assessment, on the one hand, should get confirmationif the given victim has specific needs, and if so, what kind of protection in criminalproceedings and support they need. On the other hand, it describes concrete means ofprotection and support as foreseen in the articles of the above-mentioned documents.So it is therefore best to adapt these means to specific needs.The discussed international documents prescribe always recognising a child asa person of specific needs, defining them as any person under 18 years of age. It alsoindicates that a person whose age cannot be confirmed, but for whom there are reasonsto believe they are a child, should be considered a child. For children that are victims ofcrimes, they also anticipate a wider catalogue of measures than for adult victims withspecific needs. An analysis of Polish law regulations has been made against a background ofsolutions accepted in international law acts. The analysis included in its particularscovers issues such as the problem of informing the victim about their entitlement torights, professional preparation of people who have contact with them on a professionalbasis, confirmation of special protection measures for the victims in criminal proceedings, appointment of procedural curators for harmed minors to preventconflicts of their interests with those of people who have parental custody or care overthem. Also referenced were solutions introduced by the act from 28 November 2014 about protection and aid for victims and witnesses, as well as the “Blue Card” procedurecarried out during interventions in situ undertaken in relation to family violence. Also discussed were the questionnaires prepared by the Ministry of Justice tocarry out the evaluations of specific needs of victims – this is part of the scope of thespecialist help they are meant to provide non-governmental organisations supportingvictims as well as within the scope of sharing special means for protection during criminal proceedings. It turned out that a significant majority of Polish legal normsand practices do not conform to international standards in the discussed field. With fullcertainty, institutions of individual assessment have not yet been implemented in Polish legislation, while the achieved undertakings appear insufficient. One can even say thatthey have only been pretending to aim to implement them. A specific objection is thefailure to achieve any activities aimed at ensuring a uniform standard of protectionfor all children. So children are held using current regulations under which the levelof their protection is dependent on their age and the type of criminal victimisationexperienced. Nor was there a separate category of victim with special needs in terms of protection. So special protection methods are still only given to victims of crimesof a sexual nature, as classified in articles 197 to 199 of the Criminal Code. In place ofthis, regulations ought to be introduced enabling specific methods of interrogating allvictims with special protection needs. Nor does it take into account the will of victimsabout the use of certain measures that they agree with subjectively
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Conflict between the Rights of Victim of a Crime and the Rights of the Accused under the German and Polish Justice System in the Context of the Case-law of European Courts

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Kulesza C.
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
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2020
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vol. 29
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issue 4
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The purpose of this article is to examine conflict between the rights of victims of crimes and the rights of defendants under the German and Polish justice system in the context of the case-law of European courts. The analysis covers two possible occurrences of this conflict: 1) in the cognitive sphere, including proving the defendant’s guilt or innocence, and 2) in the decision-making sphere, including initiation of a criminal applying preventive measures, and sentencing. The main thesis of the article is that in the Polish and German criminal process granting the injured parties not only protective rights, but also the status of an active trial party, the risk of this conflict in both of the above-mentioned spheres of the criminal trial is greater than, e.g., in the Anglo-Saxon process where the victim of the crime acts only as a witness. However, the research cited in the article indicates that the extensive codex procedural rights of injured parties as procedural parties (law in books) are not accompanied by their effective use in procedural practice (law in action). Therefore, the protective rights of alleged vulnerable victims, particularly victims of sexual offences, pose a greater threat to the rights of a defendant which constitute the principle of fair trial in Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights. Considerations of this article confirm also the thesis that procedural rights of defendants still have priority over victims’ rights, which of course results from the inclusion of the former in the human rights catalog contained in the European Convention on Human Rights.
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Celem artykułu jest zbadanie konfliktu między prawami pokrzywdzonych i oskarżonych w niemieckim i polskim systemie wymiaru sprawiedliwości na tle orzecznictwa trybunałów europejskich. Analizą objęto dwie możliwości zaistnienia powyższego konfliktu w procesie karnym: 1) w sferze poznawczej, obejmujące udowadnianie winy bądź niewinności oskarżonego, oraz 2) w sferze decyzyjnej, obejmującej wszczęcie postępowania karnego, stosowanie środków zapobiegawczych i wyrokowanie. Główna teza artykułu głosi, że przyznanie pokrzywdzonemu w polskim i niemieckim systemie wymiaru sprawiedliwości nie tylko praw ochronnych, lecz także statusu aktywnej strony procesowej, rodzi w obu wyżej wskazanych sferach procesu karnego większe ryzyko takiego konfliktu niż np. w systemie anglosaskim, gdzie ofiara przestępstwa występuje tylko jako świadek. Jednakże badania przytoczone w opracowaniu wskazują, że rozbudowanym kodeksowym uprawnieniom proceduralnym pokrzywdzonych jako stron procesowych (law in books) nie towarzyszy ich efektywne wykorzystywanie w praktyce procesowej (law in action). Dlatego też większe niebezpieczeństwo dla praw oskarżonego, składających się na zasadę rzetelnego procesu z art. 6 Europejskiej Konwencji Praw Człowieka, stwarzają prawa ochronne domniemanych ofiar wrażliwych na pokrzywdzenie, szczególnie ofiar przestępstw seksualnych. Rozważania w niniejszym artykule potwierdzają także tezę, że nadal pierwszeństwo przed prawami ofiar mają prawa procesowe oskarżonych, co oczywiście wynika z wpisania tych ostatnich do katalogu praw człowieka zawartego w Europejskiej Konwencji Praw Człowieka.
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