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ANALYSIS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF A WITNESS WHO IS A PERPETRATOR OF A PROHIBITED ACTION FOR GIVING FALSE EVIDENCE (ARTICLE 233 § 1A OF THE PENAL CODE) IN VIEW OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGULATIONS
Jan KLUZA1
Selected Interantional Aspects of Legal Regulations
Publication language: Polish
Journal article
Transformations No. 2 (109) 2021, Publication date: 22 June 2021
Keywords: rights to defense, false statement, concealing the truth
Abstract The article presents the problems of the amendment article 233 criminal code, respecting crime of false examination. On the ground of this act, catalog of this prohibited act was extended to include a new type consisting in the situation of making false statements or concealing the truth in order to avoid criminal liability, which until now was a situation excluding punishment. Therefore, it is justified to carry out a closer examination of this issue in terms of restricting the defense rights of the accused and the similarity of this regulation in selected foreign states.
Katedra Postępowania Karnego, Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie, Kraków, Polska
ORCID: 0000-0002-0929-6093
E-mail: jan.kluza@student.uj.edu.pl