Efficiency of Pre-Trial Proceedings – Current Challenges of Criminal Law

On September 11th and 12th, 2023 was held under the auspices of the Alumni Club and Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava the international scientific conference “Bratislava Legal Forum 2023“ (hereinafter as “conference”). The central theme of the plenary session was “Human at the center of the rule of law". One of the main goals of the conference was to connect the knowledge of legal practice and legal science through their representatives from the domestic and international environment. In order to reach this goal was the conference divided into plenary session and parallel discussions in thematically focused sections. The plenary session had two panel discussions. One of them was panel discussion called “Artificial intelligence as a challenge for law, legal education and the rule of law” and second one was panel discussion called “Criminal law and the rule of law” moderated by professor Tomáš Strémy (academic professor and attorney at law). Participants of this panel discussion were doc. JUDr. Eduard Burda, PhD. (Dean, Faculty of Law, Comenius University in Bratislava), JUDr. Petr Angyalossy, PhD. (President, Supreme Court of the Czech Republic), JUDr. Martin Puchalla, PhD. (Chairman, Slovak Bar Association), JUDr. Jozef Kandera (first deputy general prosecutor of the Slovak Republic, General Prosecutor's Office of the Slovak Republic).