{"title":"Guarantee of the Right to Silence and of the Right not to Contribute to One’s Own Incrimination in Romanian Law","authors":"Carmen Adriana Domocos","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.04037d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.04037d","url":null,"abstract":"The right to silence enjoys increased attention from the Romanian legislator and is currently regulated by the Criminal Procedure Code (Law no. 135/2010), which entered into force on 1st February 2014. The right to silence (to remain silent) and the right not to contribute to one’s own incrimination (the privilege against self-incrimination) are the implicit procedural guarantees of the right to a fair trial, which results from the case law of the European Court of Justice within the meaning of Article 6 paragraph 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights. They are also stipulated in the field of preventive measures. For the first time, the New Code of Criminal Procedure also regulates the witness’s right not to incriminate himself. The paper contains also some considerations about the purpose of the privilege of silence within the meaning of the ECHR.","PeriodicalId":125595,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Legal Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120900454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ten Years on: The Exhaustion Principle and the Practice of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo as the Final Authority for Protection of Human Rights","authors":"Besfort T. Rrecaj, Bardh Bokshi","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.03025r","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.03025r","url":null,"abstract":"Ten years after the establishment of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo, this paper aims to examine the concept of exhaustion of legal remedies in Kosovo judicial system where an individual has brought a case claiming violation of human rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The paper will focus on analyzing what constitutes an effective legal remedy including ordinary and extraordinary remedies for the purposes of submitting a constitutional complaint with the Constitutional Court. This work is based on the case-law of the Constitutional Court and tries to explain all legal steps that must be observed before submitting a constitutional complaint regarding exhaustion requirement. Furthermore, it will delve deeper into this concept by distinguishing the importance of formal and substantive exhaustion of legal remedies, the interconnectedness of formal and substantive exhaustion of legal remedies and the distinction between them as developed by the case-law of the Constitutional Court. It will conclude by summarizing main characteristics of the concept of exhaustion of legal remedies in Kosovo as it is established by the practice of the Constitutional Court.","PeriodicalId":125595,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Legal Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126324634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Users’ Considerations About Possibilities of Self-protection on Social Networks","authors":"Vida Vilic","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.02009v","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.02009v","url":null,"abstract":"The modern world of the Internet has changed significantly with the emergence of social networks. With their popularity and a large number of users, social networks have created a kind of “control” of the everyday activities of people, their habits, their movability and socializing. In Serbia, social networks became popular in 2006, while in 2007 the real expansion of social networks begins. The Internet and social networks provide countless opportunities for getting to know new people, acquiring and developing personal and professional relationships, creating different social circumstances; but the opportunities for abuse/misuse of the Internet and social networks also increased. Discussing the abuse/misuse of the Internet and social networks, arose the issue of protecting individual personal rights – the right to privacy, and about how the users of social networks can contribute in prevention of privacy violation. Certain groups of people are more likely to be exposed to privacy violation.","PeriodicalId":125595,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Legal Studies","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114427855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legal Regulation of the Crypto-Currency Taxation","authors":"Katsiaryna Ulyanava","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.01001u","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojls.0101.01001u","url":null,"abstract":"At the beginning of the 21st century, we see the emergence of new legal relations related to the massive emergence of crypto-currencies. The natural question is, what to do with the taxation of the crypto-currency, new mining activity. We are analyzed different approaches in the world for this question. In the Republic of Belarus are created conditions for introduction in the economy of the technology of transaction block ledger (blockchain) and legally fixing such complex concepts as crypto currency, mining, digital sign (token). Granting tax holidays for 5 years gives, as advantages in attracting foreign business to the jurisdiction of Belarus, and can contribute to the inflow of illegal money, and therefore it is necessary to strengthen internal control to prevent the legalization of proceeds from crime, and to take an active part in global international initiative – the BEPS Plan (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting).","PeriodicalId":125595,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Legal Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126820023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}