Trabajos

Food Law, five reasons for its implementation in Cuba.

  • Lic. Jorge Freddy Milián Gómez

This article is intended to present five legal reasons for the implementation of the Food Law as a branch of law in Cuba. An analysis is made of the historical background, evolution and concept of the Food Law, systematizing the visions in Europe and Latin America. It offers an analysis of the legal norms of the European Union that support the Food Law and the principles that inform it. The Food Law has been treated as a transformation of Agrarian Law, even being merged into the so-called Agri-F...

La prisión preventiva oficiosa: violatoria del principio de presunción de inocencia

  • MsC. Juan Antonio Loyola Castro

La prisión preventiva oficiosa en México basada en el artículo 19 de la Carta Magna del Estado Mexicano, si bien es cierto que constitucionalmente es legal, es violatoria del principio de Presunción de Inocencia y claramente vulnera Derechos Fundamentales de todo ser humano, al mismo tiempo es contraria al convencionalismo de tratados Internacionales. En el desarrollo de la ponencia se enumeraran las ventajas y desventajas de la prisión preventiva oficiosa, pero además se demuestra que la falta ...

THE “INNOCENT OWNER” DEFENCE TO CIVIL RECOVERY OF ASSETS LINKED TO CRIME

  • Dr. Richard Alexander

An increasingly number of jurisdictions are making use of civil recovery (termed civil forfeiture in the United States) as a weapon to seize property that is linked to crime. A key feature is that the holder of the property need not have been convicted of having committed the crime to which the property is said to be linked – or indeed of any crime at all. This gives rise to the question: what protection, if any, should be given to the holder where there is no evidence that they knew or even sus...