LAW & CRIME

Justice Minister Tudorel Toader has announced late on Tuesday that the Government has approved the emergency ordinance amending the justice laws, arguing the amendment proposals would have come upon the suggestion of the Superior Council of Magistracy (CSM). However, the ...

The Magistrates of the High Court of Cassation and Justice (ICCJ – Supreme Court) have uphold Dan Şova’s appeal against the decision of the 5-judge panel to the same court, deciding to reopen the file on April 15, 2019, when ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has released the details regarding the application filed by the former National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi, lodged on December 28, 2018. The case has been admitted in principle. According ...

The National Liberal Party (PNL) will table a draft law in Parliament to disband the section for investigating crimes in the judiciary systems, the party’s first vice-president Raluca Turcan announced on Monday. She argued that if magistrates commit abuses, they ...

A NGO fighting for the rights of disabled children, the European Centre for the Rights of Disabled Children (CNCD), has filed a complaint against Education minister Ecaterina Andronescu to the National Council for Combating Discrimination for her recent statement on ...

The High Court of Cassation and Justice is resuming on Monday the file on the fictitious hiring in Teleorman Child Protection Services where ruling party’s chairman, Liviu Dragnea, is sentenced to three years and a half in prison. PSD chairman ...

Former National Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) chief prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi has said on Friday, while leaving the Prosecutor’s Office, she was heard and has been informed about the status of suspect for charges of abuse of office, bribe taking and ...

Carmen Iohannis, the wife of President Klaus Iohannis, was heard by the Prosecutor General’s Office in the file related to the amounts received from renting a house, judicial sources say. The Prosecutor’s Office representatives have not revealed when Carman Iohannis ...

Darius Vâlcov, economic adviser to PM Viorica Dăncilă, was fined and had his driving license suspended for 90 days after being caught by policemen on Thursday while driving the car in Arges County at a speed above the legal limit. ...

Former tennis legend Ilie Castase has pleaded guilty on Thursday, at the hearings with the Bucharest District 1 Court, being charged with driving under influence and for refusing tests and biological samples. He has agreed to work for the benefit ...