substantive criminal law

Most of this article deals exclusively with the substantive criminal law set out in Part 1.

He has also authored several manuals for military judges on trial procedure, substantive criminal law, and evidence.

His work is lasting value in the area of substantive criminal law and criminal procedural law.

That monumental enterprise, which transformed substantive criminal law in the United States, was produced through the combined efforts of legal scholars, practitioners and judges.

Subsequently, on 24 February 2005, the Council instructed its working party on substantive criminal law to continue the discussions on the proposal.

The Code of Criminal Procedure is the main legislation on procedure for administration of substantive criminal law in India.

Apart from indictments and convictions, this office has also faced an extraordinary number of legal disputes on issues of privilege, on jurisdiction, substantive criminal law and the like.

Although this framework decision is a step in the right direction, it confines itself to increasing criminal sanctions by harmonising substantive criminal law in the form of minimum standards.

Instead, criminal procedure in California is codified in Part 2 of the Penal Code, while Part 1 is devoted to substantive criminal law.

The Framework Decision takes note of Convention on Cybercrime, but concentrates on the harmonisation of substantive criminal law provisions that are designed to protect infrastructure elements.

Mark Kelman, 'Interpretive Construction in the Substantive Criminal Law' Stanford Law Review (1981)

I am delighted that there has been a compromise with the Council, and that this text is sufficiently emphatic while making it possible to retain the key provisions of substantive criminal law.

In accordance with this, a Council working group - one speaker has gone into it already - is currently working just on the first part of the initiative, that is, on substantive criminal law.

Whilst substantive criminal law is and should remain a matter for Member States, it is equally clear that environmental protection is something which can best be coordinated at the EU level.

"RICO is the Achilles' heel of substantive criminal law," asserted Bruce A. Ackerman, a Sterling Professor of law and political science at Yale.

It will present a strategy for the protection of EU public money against all forms of illegal conduct, including fraud, and will look at procedures, substantive criminal law and the institutional framework.

As a practitioner of many years' standing, I support any simplification of intergovernmental relations but because of historical and cultural differences I do not expect anything at all will be gained by harmonizing substantive criminal law.

To sum up, I do not see any need either to harmonize substantive criminal law or for a state prosecutor with Europe-wide jurisdiction but rather a need for some form of improved cooperation between prosecuting authorities.

In 2009, ECOWAS adopted the Directive on Fighting Cybercrime in ECOWAS that provides a legal framework for the member states, which includes substantive criminal law as well as procedural law.

We have also made progress in relation to substantive criminal law, particularly by adopting the framework decisions in the field of drug trafficking and several reports on the implementation of framework decisions on the subjects, especially, of combating money laundering and terrorism.

Nevertheless, the Commission does not foresee tabling a proposal on this subject under Article 34 of the Treaty on European Union, as it has not been identified, for now, as being one of the priority areas for approximation of substantive criminal law.