NEWS
The crime of reduction or maintenance in slavery or servitude
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...
Extradition and prison overcrowding
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...
Refusal to recognize foreign arbitration award in case of violation of the right of defense
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)
