Pilate washing his hands, the CJEU on pre-trial detention
The very recent ruling of the CJEU in DK (C-653/19 PPU, 28 November 2019) came to verify two quite depressing suspicions about the current status of European criminal law. First, Directive 2016/343 on the presumption of innocence remains an instrument with staggeringly limited applicability especially in the field of pre-trial detention. Second, pre-trial detention stands as a political and legal hot potato: neither the CJEU nor the EU legislator are eager to provide common standards on pre-trial detention, even if the lack of these standards is partly to blame for problems of mutual trust between judicial authorities in the Member States.
Written by Adriano Martufi (Assistant Professor, Leiden University) and Christina Peristeridou. Originally published on Eu Law Analysis - More blogs on Law Blogs Maastricht - Art credit: Jan Lieven, via Wikicommons. |
C. Peristeridou
Dr. Christina Peristeridou is a tenured Assistant Professor at the criminal law department and the Maastricht Insitutute for Criminal Sciences (MICS) and a lawyer, admitted to the Bar of Thessaloniki since 2008. She specialises in comparative and European criminal procedure.
