Two-speed criminal law (interview on local TV)
Following the news of the trial of the board of directors of Caixa Penedes Savings Bank, I participated in the debate of “Migdia a 8tv” tv program (8tv catalan local channel, in catalan language) led by anchorwoman Ruth Jiménez, discussing about atenuatory circumstances (reparing the damage) in white-collar crimes and pleads of guilty in the criminal process. Watch video below:
Illegal website blocking
It is still unusual in the Spanish criminal system to obtain, as a preventive measure, the blocking of a website with illegal content. However, the increased number of attacks against the honor on the Internet (libel, defamation or calumny) requires to reconsider the need to implement effective judicial responses through
The destruction of privacy
We have to accept that probably someone is spying us. And not only someone is controlling the data we publish on the Internet (our intimacy that we disclose more or less knowing that “what is uploaded cannot be de-uploaded”), but even our private or secret communications (PRISM). The retention of
Entrevista a la revista El Jurista
Colleage and lawyer David Daura interviewed me for El Jurista online magazine (spanish version only). We talked about our career, how I started as a lawyer, news, legal ethics, cybercrime and many other things. I think it is really a fresh interview and I’ve been very confortable and felt
DNA testing (interview on local TV)
Following the news of the investigation in La Rochelle (France) to discover a sex offender, I participated in the sofa debate of 8aldia TV program (8tv catalan local channel, in catalan language) led by famous anchorman Josep Cuní, reviewing DNA evidence in criminal investigations. It also emerged during the debate
Tax evasion (TV interview)
Following the news of the investigation on Mr. Jordi Pujol’s family (former premier of Catalonia) for tax evasion and money laundering, I participated in the debate of “Vespre a La2” tv program (catalan channel, in catalan language) led by anchorman Xavi Díaz, discussing about future of the judicial process on Mr. Jordi Pujol Ferrusola (President’s son), the reason why the judge did not order a pre-trial detention and again about the “two-speed” criminal law as I talked about in a previous post.
I also link to an article I made for Pensamiento Penal online law magazine (in spanish) about the new Tax Evasion offences of Spanish Criminal Code and the consequences on the definition of the offence, the aggravated offences, and about tax regularization and the relation between tax evasion and money laundering.
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Bloqueo webs ilícitas
Resulta todavía inhabitual en el sistema penal español conseguir cautelarmente el bloqueo de páginas web con contenidos ilícitos. Sin embargo, la proliferación de ataques contra el honor en Internet (insultos, difamaciones o calumnias) obliga a plantearse la necesidad de articular reacciones judiciales efectivas a través de la adopción de medidas
Cómo anular una prueba de alcoholemia
La Sentencia que condena por conducción temeraria y homicidio imprudente al torero Ortega Cano, determina que no iba bebido. El abogado defensor consigue que la Magistrada cuestione la prueba de alcoholemia (que recordemos era de concentraciones altísimas de alcohol) hasta el punto de no valorarla. Una meritoria defensa penal que
La destrucción de la privacidad
Debemos acostumbrarnos al hecho de que nos espían. Y no sólo controlan los datos que ya publicamos voluntariamente en Internet (la intimidad que divulgamos con mayor o menor conciencia de que "todo lo que se sube a la red no puede ya nunca retirarse") sino que registran nuestras comunicaciones privadas
Retos relacionados con la prueba electrónica (parte I)
Los pasados días 21 y 22 de noviembre asistí a uno de los cursos que ofrece la Academia de Derecho Europeo y en concreto el que se realizó en Milán sobre prueba electrónica (Challenges Related to Electronic Evidence), dentro de los distintos que sobre temas de derecho y TIC viene