In 2012 amendments of the Criminal Procedure Act of the Republic of Slovenia (ZKP-K) entered into force introducing judgment on the basis of a guilty plea.
In the Master's thesis, the author considers the limited legal remedies available to the accused in the event of a guilty plea and compares them with legal remedies in a regular criminal procedure. The divergent legal remedies are reviewed in the context of both constitutional rights and the rights enshrined by the European Convention on Human Rights. The author also focuses on other unsettled issues of positive law regulation.
Following a comparative review of procedural approaches in the United States and Germany, the author concludes with proposals of reform to the current law.
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