The Criminal Process and Human Rights : : Toward a European Consciousness / / edited by Mark A. Summers and Mireille Delmas-Marty.

• TeilnehmendeR: Summers, Mark A.,; Delmas-Marty, Mireille,
• Place / Publishing House: Dordrecht, The Netherlands : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, [1995]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- PART ONE / Status Reports -- CHAPTER ONE / A Period of Reform in Europe -- Recap of the Debates -- Criminal Procedure: Main Comparable Features of the National Systems -- The Preparatory Phase of the Criminal Proceeding: Major Trends in European Jurisprudence -- CHAPTER TWO / Survey of National Criminal Justice Systems -- Recap of the Debates -- The Criminal Process in France -- The Criminal Process in Italy -- The Criminal Process in Portugal -- The Criminal Process in the Federal Republic of Germany - An Overview -- Criminal Procedure in England - A Summary of its Merits and Defects - The Outlines of the System -- The Criminal Process in Czechoslovakia -- The Criminal Process in the Soviet Union -- PART TWO / Debates -- CHAPTER ONE / What Rights for Those on Trial? -- Universality and Human Rights -- The Concept of Human Rights. A Landmark for Understanding a Progressive Development -- Recap of the Debates -- CHAPTER TWO / What the Professionals Say. What the Litigants Think -- The Judicial Arena and Reform of the Instruction -- Recap of the debate -- CHAPTER THREE / The Trials in Images. Images of the Trial -- Evolution of the Legislation -- Recap of the Debates -- CHAPTER FOUR / The Criminal Trial in a Democracy -- Equality of Speech, A Principle of a Democracy and of a Criminal Trial -- Justifications for and Limitations on the Actions of the Public Prosecutor -- Recap of the Debates -- PART THREE / Overture -- For a Europe of Values -- Perspectives from the Council of Europe -- The Harmonization of the Criminal Procedure Laws of the Member States as a Result of European Community Law -- Toward a European Model of the Criminal Trial -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.