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In its judgment in Case C-292/23, Fiscalía Europea v I.R.O. and F.J.L.R., the Court of Justice of the European Union held that procedural acts of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) which are capable of producing binding legal effects vis-à-vis third parties must be amenable to judicial review by the competent national courts.

y its judgment in Karakasidis v. Greece of 16 December 2025 (Application no. 46737/20), the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Greece in violation of the presumption of innocence, censuring the domestic courts’ practice of impermissibly shifting onto the accused the burden of proving his innocence, thereby undermining in practice the guarantee enshrined in Article 6 § 2 of the Convention.

In its judgment in Case C-548/21, CG v. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) examined the delicate balance between the protection of personal data and the necessity of effective criminal prosecution within the context of police investigations.

In its judgment in Case C-548/21, CG v. Bezirkshauptmannschaft Landeck, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) examined the delicate balance between the protection of personal data and the necessity of effective criminal prosecution within the context of police investigations.

The study entitled “The Self-Incriminating Statements of the Accused” was the subject of my contribution to the 9th Conference of the Association of Greek Criminal Lawyers, which took place on the 20th and 21st of October 2023 in Thessaloniki, which was recently published by the Law Library.

The study deals with the problem of the procedural use of the self-incriminating statements of the defendant. For the completeness of the inquiry of the issue, it was considered appropriate to make a comparative reference to the way in which self-incriminating statements are treated both by Greek jurisprudence and the European Court of Human Rights and the US Supreme Federal Court, whose jurisprudence is, admittedly, particularly advanced.

After a classification of self-incriminating statements according to the way in which the investigating authorities have gained access to them, the possibilities of their procedural use are then explored for each case. In particular, it examines what are the critical conditions that must be met in order for such statements to be freely exploited by the court

You can watch my intervention at the link below : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHSnmLVHx8Q&t=5951s

Inhuman and degrading treatment. Article 3 ECHR. Life imprisonment. Possibility of conditional dismissal. The lack of prospect of release or reconsideration of the sentence constitutes

Theft of electricity – Lawfulness of the representation in support of the class of DEDDHE AE (HEDNO S.A.) – Crime against property – Observations on

The justification of the civil decisions through the free – not arbitrary – assessment of the evidence and the obligation of the (old) article 38

Criminal Law – Statute of Limitation for tax evasion – Retroactive application of a newer law – Article 2 PC – opposition of a criminal

Torture – Criminal Law – Abuse by an individual – Inhuman behavior – Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – Fair

Criminal Law – Molotov cocktail – Elements of incendiary and explosive device – Manufacture and possession of explosives – 272 PC – Arson The reversal

Right to Silence – Grounds for an administrative offense – Administrative sanction of criminal nature – Criminal Liability – Privileged information – Market manipulation –