Nehézségek az alkotmányos átmenetben : Belsõ ellentmondások az elévületlenség és elévülhetetlenség törvényi megerõsítésében

Varga, Csaba (2011) Nehézségek az alkotmányos átmenetben : Belsõ ellentmondások az elévületlenség és elévülhetetlenség törvényi megerõsítésében. IUSTUM AEQUUM SALUTARE, 7 (4). pp. 9-24. ISSN 1787-3223

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DIFFICULTIES IN CONSTITUTIONAL TRANSITION Contradictions Built in the Statutory Confirmation of that a Crime has not Passed and/or cannot Ever Pass Statutory Limitations Based upon the letter of the criminal code missing provision for the case when the state itself is accomplice of crimes and prevents law suites processing them to happen, the Hungarian constitutional court judged the law on their statutory limitation period suspended to be unconstitutional, null and void (1992). A draft law envisages now reconfirming that crimes defined by the 1968 UNO Agreement (ratified by the country in 1971 but never applied by domestice jurisdictions) are not to ever pass limitations. Considering the fact that domestic judicial practice rejecting the force of international law even if promulgated has ever runned against international law, no new law or official stand is welcome to posteriorly legitimise an unlawful practice. Following this line, argumentation holds that according to Hungarian constitutional court jurisprudence instituting “constitutional penal law” in terms of which limitation is to pertain not to the procedural but to the substantive side of criminal law, not modifiable retroactively if not in favour of the perpatrator, any statutory intervention beyond mere ratification/promulgation may be debated and also opposed/rejected as retroactive criminal legislation. Moreover, the legislator is not allowed to intervene in substitution of the interpretative power of the judicial forum of the case. Over-active abuse as it may be, the constitutional court stand can however only be challenged by the new basic law and/or its constitutional annexes with express provision to the contrary. Or, in fact the preamble of the new basic law has already provided for the “negation” of that those crimes may have passed limitations. Accordingly, the only task is to transform this allegation into plain legal regulatory formulation in the basic law’s enacting clause and/or within its transitional provisions.

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