Status of a child witness involved in the offence of an adult in criminal procedure

IF 0.4 Q3 LAW
Justyna Głębocka
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Abstract

Giving special importance to the rights of the child, international and European instruments set certain standards aimed at strengthening their guarantees. The standards improving the juvenile offender’s status intend to ensure procedures that take account of the child’s welfare and strengthen their procedural position which, otherwise, because of their age and psychophysical development may be more vulnerable than in the case of an adult’s one. They refer directly to a juvenile offender in case of whom legal proceedings are conducted. This paper aims to clarify underlying issues of a specific procedural configuration, where separate proceedings are conducted regarding a juvenile offender, and separate criminal proceedings before a criminal court are run against an accused adult whose act is related to the juvenile’s act. It attempts to answer, in the context of European standards, the question on the most important rights of a juvenile whose punishable act is in a close relation to an act of an adult offender, and who, for this reason, appears in a criminal trial as a witness. This paper takes into account the European Union standards which result from international children’s rights instruments binding across the EU, the child-specific case law of ECtHR as well as the psychological aspects related to the psychophysical development of minors.
在刑事诉讼中涉及成人犯罪的儿童证人的地位
国际和欧洲文书特别重视儿童的权利,制订了旨在加强对儿童权利的保障的某些标准。改善少年犯地位的标准旨在确保程序考虑到儿童的福利并加强他们在程序上的地位,否则,由于他们的年龄和心理发育,他们可能比成年人更容易受到伤害。如果对少年犯提起法律诉讼,则直接涉及少年犯。本文旨在澄清特定程序配置的潜在问题,其中针对少年犯进行单独的诉讼,并且在刑事法院对其行为与青少年行为相关的被告成年人进行单独的刑事诉讼。它试图在欧洲标准的范围内回答关于应受惩罚的行为与成年罪犯的行为有密切关系的青少年的最重要权利的问题,并因此在刑事审判中作为证人出现。本文考虑了欧盟标准,这些标准来自于对整个欧盟具有约束力的国际儿童权利文书,欧洲人权法院针对儿童的判例法,以及与未成年人身心发展有关的心理方面。
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