The Council of Europe was founded well before the European Union, as an independent organization, its main activity being the protection of human rights, with special emphasis on guaranteeing minimum social rights for every citizen of the Member States, including Romania, starting in 1993. The...

Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights prohibits torture, and "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment". There are no exceptions or limitations on this right. This provision usually applies, apart from torture, to cases of severe police violence and poor conditions in...

The article deals with the cases and the conditions when the regulations concerning the lack of defense of the accused in a criminal trial are applied. The phrase “lack of defense” signifies not only the situation when, in a criminal trial, the accused was not assisted by any pleader, so...

The present period determined major changes to the level of humans, both in relation to political, economic and social issues and to legal ones. Romania of the last 20 years has passed through radical changes at social, political and economic level, from a centralized system of socialist economy...

Legal liability is an obligation to support a legal sanction for the violation or failure of a legal norm. Pecuniary liability is a special contractual liability, regulated by the Labor Code in a separate chapter (Title XI, Chapter III). The repair liability as one that produced a loss will be...