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The article discusses matters related to the issuance of the European Investigation Order (EIO) during the stage of a preparatory proceeding, the objective of which is to obtain information protected by banking secrecy from a foreign bank. Attention is drawn to the essence of this instrument of international cooperation in criminal matters and its comprehensive nature. A key problem revealed in prosecutorial...
The present gloss refers to the thesis and considerations expressed in the Supreme Court judgement of 28 February 2023, I KZP 13/22, concerning the exception to the rule of speciality stipulated in Article 14(1)(b) of the European Convention on Extradition. The author presents arguments concerning the broad international legal context of the analysed regulation, which develops and confirms the accuracy...
The Act of 7 July 2022, amending the Act – Criminal Code and certain other acts, introduced the possibility of imposing a sentence of life imprisonment without parole into the Criminal Code. The legislator provided for two grounds for the optional imposition of an irreducible life imprisonment sentence. The first (Article 77 § 3 of the Criminal Code) is based on formal grounds: a previous conviction...