Open AccessCOMPENSATION OF NON-PECUNIARY DAMAGE CAUSED BY UNLAWFUL OR UNJUSTIFIED RESTRICTION OF LIBERTY
Author(s) -
Aldis Kaļva
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
administrative and criminal justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2592-8422
pISSN - 1407-2971
DOI - 10.17770/acj.v2i83.3459
Subject(s) - damages , compensation (psychology) , agency (philosophy) , law , normative , enforcement , criminal law , business , law enforcement , political science , sociology , psychology , social science , psychoanalysis
In this publication it was research non-pecuniary damages caused by law enforcement agency and its indemnification. As the goal of publication was set to discover and analyse the problem about non-pecuniary damages caused by law enforcement agency and its indemnification and to investigate whether the newly adopted law on Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings and Administrative violations eliminates pre-existing problems with indemnification of non-pecuniary damage caused by law enforcement agency. The raised aim was achieved. It was found, that law on Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings and Administrative Violations eliminates pre-existing problems when courts had problems determining the amount of compensation of non-pecuniary damages in accordance with Civil law article 5. However there are problems with fixed calculation of daily wages in the article 15. of the law on Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings and Administrative violations.The article uses the systemic, dogmatic and comparative method of studying and analyzing normative acts and court rulings.