In the present article, the author analyses, in the human rights context, the use of force by the police officers and points out the cases in which this becomes inhuman treatment. Paying particular attention to the Romanian system (by summarizing the Court’s judgment in the case of Ghiţă v. Romania, 2012), the author criticizes the lack of measures needed to change these frequent situations contrary to the Convention and tries to explain some of  the implications.

The new Romanian Code of Civil Procedure seems to be taking our legal system one step further towards respecting the right to a fair trial guaranteed by Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

This article aims at analysing the notion of extinctive prescription, particularly in regard to its starting point, in cases of contradictory jurisprudence due to unclear legal provisions.

Lately there are more and more news regarding the so-called “first registration tax” in Romania. Its incompatibility with the European Union law is already a well-known fact, and this is mainly why its regulation has been repealed for the time being. Nevertheless, it seems that it will be enacted under a new format in 2013.