Accertamento penale e principio del ne bis in idem: La tutela della vittima di reato nella giustizia riparativa

• Viviana Di Nuzzo ^[1]
  1. [1] Aut 5546106-
• Localización: Ordine Internazionale e Diritti Umani, ISSN-e 2284-3531, Nº. Extra 3, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ne bis in idem: origini ed evoluzione del principio a livello interno e internazionale), págs. 99-118
• Idioma: italiano
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Ascertainment of facts and ne bis in idem principle: the protection of victim in restorative justice
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• Resumen

  • The principle of ne bis in idem has generally constituted a fundamental safeguard for the accused. The European Court of Human Rights, however, delivered some recent decisions which dealt with this guarantee with an original approach. This paper analyses this problematic field along the lines of ECtHR and ECJ judgments regarding ne bis in idem principle in order to understand whether and how the European courts took into consideration the interests of the aggrieved parties.

    Against this framework, the contribution will deal also with some problematic issues raised by the Italian reform of criminal justice, which introduced new forms of restorative justice between the victim and the accused. In particular, when the restorative program takes place during the investigative stage of a criminal proceeding, the positive outcome determines the extinction of the crime. Therefore, it is relevant to understand the effects produced by such termination of the proceeding, in order to verify whether this decision can preclude a subsequent prosecution de eadem re et persona and can be considered compatible with ECJ caselaw in the field of ne bis in idem principle.

    An original definition of this relevant safeguard which takes into account the victim’s position is of the utmost importance to enhance an overall concept of the right to a fair trial.