OCHRANA OSOBITNÝCH ZÁUJMOV A KONTRADIKTÓRNOSŤ V PROCESE DOKAZOVANIA S UTAJOVANÝMI SVEDKAMI

• Authors: Bališ Juraj

Title variants

EN

Protection of particular interests and the adversarial principle in criminal proceedings with anonymous witnesses

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

This article is focused on the issue of protecting particular interests, which interferes with the rights of the defence, when performing evidence in criminal proceedings. In special cases where the life and health of the witness or the public interest may be endangered, the law permits the limitation of the defendant‘s fundamental rights and freedoms only if certain basic conditions guarantee the fairness of the trial and minimize the interference with the defendant‘s right to a proper defence respecting the principles of the contradictory nature of the evidence process. In my contribution, I deal mainly with witness testimony obtained from a person whose identity is in the criminal proceedings confidential. I refer to the rules that have emerged from the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on how to handle a collision of special interests.

Keywords

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WITNESS; PROTECTION; EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56 – 66

Contributors

author

Bališ Juraj

• Katedra trestného práva a kriminológie, Právnická fakulta, Trnavská univerzita, Trnava, Slovak Republic