Reopening of criminal proceedings de lege lata and an analysis of the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia adopted in relation to constitutional complaints following the reopening of criminal proceedings on the basis of a final judgment of the European Court of Human Rights

Abstract

Prvi dio ovog rada bavi se analizom uređenja instituta obnove kaznenog postupka prema VII. noveli Zakona o kaznenom postupku s obzirom na to da se postojeća kaznenopravna literatura time uglavnom ne bavi, a sam institut i dalje obiluje problemima, koje je nužno riješiti na zakonodavnom nivou. U drugom dijelu rada analiziraju se odluke Ustavnog suda Republike Hrvatske koje su donesene u vezi s obnovom kaznenog postupka na osnovi konačne presude Europskog suda za ljudska prava s obzirom na to da taj sud ima značajnu interpretativnu ulogu u procesu izvršenja pozitivnih obveza koje za Republiku Hrvatsku proizlaze na temelju presuda Europskog suda za ljudska prava.The first part of this paper considers the manner in which the instrument of reopening criminal proceedings is regulated according to the 7th amendments to the Criminal Procedure Act. The existing literature dealing with criminal law does not usually deal with this issue, and this instrument continues to pose problems that need to be resolved at the legislative level. The second part of the paper considers the decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia connected with the reopening of criminal proceedings on the basis of a final judgment of the European Court of Justice, since this Court plays a significant interpretative role in the process of executing the positive obligations of Croatia that arise on the basis of the judgments of the ECtHR