Professional paper

https://doi.org/10.65342/door.2.1.8

Anticipated Reforms to the Misdemeanour Act

Robert Olujić

Abstract

In light of the announced amendments to the Misdemeanour Act, the paper identifies certain shortcomings in the current regulation of the statute of limitations for misdemeanour prosecution, the enforcement of protective measures, the admissibility of unlawful evidence, procedural costs, judicial supervision of charges, and the court's handling of objections to mandatory misdemeanour orders. These shortcomings arise from the analysis of the text of the Act and case law, respectively, but are not addressed by the announced legislative amendment. For each issue considered, the paper proposes an improvement to increase the efficiency of proceedings while preserving the requirements arising from the right to a fair trial. The paper is structured so that each separate chapter analyses each deficiency and provides a proposal for rectifying it.

Keywords

misdemeanour proceedings, statute of limitations, costs, enforcement of protective measures, judicial economy, fair trial

Hrčak ID:

347837

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/347837

Publication date:

15.6.2026.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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