The International Criminal Court: current problems and ways of their solution (original) (raw)
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The jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court is specific with respect to other international judicial bodies. First of all, it is complementary to national legislation. Preference is given to the criminal proceedings before domestic courts, and only if the competent State does not take procedural steps will the Court have jurisdiction. Also, the crime itself must be of such a gravity that it falls within the jurisdiction of the Court. The Court may exercise its jurisdiction if the following States are Parties to the Statute: the State on the territory of which the crime was committed and the State of which the person accused of the crime is a national. A particular issue is the jurisdiction of the Court for nationals of Non-States Parties of the Statute. Also, Court does not accept the immunity of persons acting in an official capacity. This does not apply to Heads of States that are not parties of the Statute, with the sole exception that the Court may exercise jurisdiction over them when proceedings are initiated by the Security Council. The issue of special importance is investigation – who is authorized to initiate it and which evidence level is necessary to establish grounds for suspicion that the crime committed was within the jurisdiction of the Court. Much of these issues have remained open and are resolved in the Court's jurisprudence, and it will be so in the future.
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International Legal Paradigm of the Criminal Procedure: Reality Which Not Everyone Accepts
Juridical Journal of Samara University, 2019
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The article is devoted to the analysis of the problem issues of the Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) through the prism of international standard of access to justice in civil matters. The first part of the article refers to terminological inconsistency, which is connected with using of three synonyms refering to IT-technologies in the area of civil justice, in particular cyberjustice, digital justice and e-justice. The author proposes to use term “e-justice”, which involves e-filing, electronic systems of assignment of cases, e-case-management, eDiscovery, ODR, electronic systems of court practice, using of Artificial Intelligence in civil proceedings. In the second part of the article the narrow and wide approach to the ODR are described. According to narrow approach ODR is described as online ADR. Wide approach to ODR includes online ADR as well as online courts. Today wide approach is more valid taking into account recent developments in the field of online courts in foreign count...