Overview
- Gathers best practices applicable to EU Directives on rights and safeguards in a single volume
- Every chapter has been co-authored by a scholar and a legal practitioner, offering the reader a dual perspective
- Includes up-to-date European case-law references, which are particularly useful for legal practitioners
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Law (BRIEFSLAW)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- right to interpretation and translation
- right to information
- right of defence
- legal aid
- presumption of innocence
- minor offenders
- best practices
- suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings
- right to information in criminal proceedings
- access to a lawyer and legal aid
- procedural treatment of minor offenders
- procedural guarantees
About this book
Adopting a practical perspective, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Directives adopted by the European Union concerning the rights of and safeguards for suspected and accused persons in criminal proceedings.
It is the result of a collaboration between scholars and legal practitioners, and the first work of its kind to examine all relevant rights and safeguards in a single volume. The book offers readers panoramic, functional and in-depth insights into the EU legal framework and related European case law, and highlights the main issues and gaps identified by the authors in legal practice. In addition, it provides recommendations, guidelines and effective solutions applicable to criminal proceedings.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Coral Arangüena Fanego, Professor in Procedural Law at the University of Valladolid.
Montserrat De Hoyos Sancho, Professor in Procedural Law at the University of Valladolid.
Alejandro Hernández López, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Procedural Law at the University of Valladolid.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Procedural Safeguards for Suspects and Accused Persons in Criminal Proceedings
Book Subtitle: Good Practices Throughout the European Union
Editors: Coral Arangüena Fanego, Montserrat de Hoyos Sancho, Alejandro Hernández López
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61177-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61176-7Published: 06 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61177-4Published: 05 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-855X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-8568
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 84
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Socio-legal Studies, European Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, European Criminal Law, Human Rights