THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS REGARDING THE PHASE OF THE PRE-TRIAL CHAMBER PHASE IN THE CRIMINAL TRIAL

The entrance into force of the new Criminal Procedure Code – namely of the Law No 135/2010 – on the 1 st of February 2014, has brought in a series of modifications regarding the so-called “phases of the criminal trial”. This is why, explicitly for the Romanian procedural legislation, was inserted by the legislator, before the trial itself, a pre-trial phase – hearing in the pre-trial chamber. The details of this hearing shall be analyzed below.