The Court of Appeal of Florence with sentence no. 238 of 2023 established that the driver of the truck on which the contraband material was transported, a mere executor of company orders, is not punishable in the absence of proof regarding his awareness of the...

The Court of Appeal of Florence with an order of 23 August 2022 reiterated that by virtue of the 2019 judicial cooperation agreement between Italy and Kazakhstan, the parties must refuse extradition if for the crime, under the law in force in one of the two countries,...

The High (Cassation)  Criminal Court  has interpreted Article 630 of the Criminal Code (with sentence n. 37638/2014), stating that the said offense takes the form of those activities to which the offended person is forced through violence, threat, deception, abuse of...

No to extradition if the situation in prisons in the requesting country is contrary to the international standards established in the Torreggiani and others v. Italy sentence rendered by the European Court of Human Rights on 8 January 2013. For the High Criminal Court...

In the event that the defendant's default has been declared in the absence of notification of the summons, the arbitration award will not be recognized in Italy (C.d.A. Florence, section 1, 30 May 2006)

The "prescribtion" period is set according to the type of credit and in general, except in cases where the law provides otherwise, the credit is prescribed in 10 years (art. 2946 c.c.).