EuCLR European Criminal Law Review

This article addresses the preventive custodial measures provided for by Portuguese law. First, the authors describe penal sanctions, with a special focus on the ‘relatively indeterminate sentence’, which can be regarded as a hybrid between...

The first year of operations of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) was basically very successful. However, also several problems came to light which the European Union’s first original prosecution authority has still to overcome. One...

In the absence of unambiguous interpretations of the concepts of slavery, servitude, forced labour and labour exploitation offered by the sociological and anthropological debate, the article analyses the same concepts from a normative point of view,...

In this article, I analyse and discuss the demands of the Court of Justice of the EU to the transposition into domestic law of the grounds for optional non-execution in Articles 4 and 4a of Council Framework Decision 2002/584 on the European arrest...

On the 8th of March 2022, the Grand Chamber of ECJ, in the case NE II, accepted the direct effect of the “proportionality requirement” of criminal nature’s sanctions provided in Art.20 of Directive 2014/67/EU, even connecting it with the...

Although it is not a secret that the precise implications of the proportionality principle in criminal law matters are still subject to debate, up until now, this has not been perceived as problematic. However, analysis reveals that the poor framing...

A significant ruling by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in 2021 (V.C.L. and A.N. v UK) reinvigorated the principle of non-punishment as a paramount tool in the prevention of modern-day slavery. This article attempts to crystallise how the...

In the absence of unambiguous interpretations of the concepts of slavery, servitude, forced labour and labour exploitation offered by the sociological and anthropological debate, the article analyses the same concepts from a normative point of view,...