Criminal cases
Brunell en McArdle tegen Nederland | EHRM: het hof mag een vrijspraak niet omzetten in een veroordeling zonder de beslissende getuige zélf te horen
On 02, sep 2026 | In Strafzaken | Door: K. Canatan
Op 1 september 2026 oordeelde het Europees Hof voor de Rechten van de Mens in Brunell en McArdle tegen Nederland (klachtnrs. 30395/20 en 31220/20) unaniem dat artikel 6 lid 1 EVRM is geschonden. Het gerechtshof Amsterdam vernietigde een vrijspraak en kwam tot een veroordeling, zonder de getuige op wiens verklaring die veroordeling beslissend rustte zelf te horen.
Innovation Act on Criminal Procedure (Stb 2022, 276)
On 01, Oct 2022 | In Criminal Matters | By: F.P. Slewe
On October 1, 2022, the so-called Innovation Act on Criminal Procedure (hereinafter Innovation Act Sv) entered into force.
The Innovation Act Sv is part of the legislative project new Code of Criminal Procedure. The Innovation Code of Criminal Procedure Act makes it possible, in anticipation of the new Code, to gain experience with some topics relevant to the practice of criminal law in the form of pilot projects. A new Title X will be included in the Fourth Book of the Code of Criminal Procedure, in which these topics will be regulated in detail.
Strengthening criminal law approach to undermining crime' Act
On 03, Jan 2022 | In Criminal Cases | By: F.P. Slewe
On 1 January 2022, the Act on Strengthening the Criminal Law Approach to Undermining Crime came into force (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 2021, 544). According to the legislator, the purpose of this Act is to strengthen the criminal-law approach to subversive crime. This involves, in particular, combating the illegal drugs industry, the associated laundered profits, dangers such as drug labs in residential areas, dumping toxic chemical waste in nature, and threatening local administrators and other public officials.
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Act on criminalisation of the abuse of prostitutes who are victims of human trafficking has entered into force
On 03, Jan 2022 | In Criminal Cases | By: F.P. Slewe
On 1 January 2022, the Criminalisation of the Abuse of Prostitutes who are Victims of TraffickingAct came into force (Bulletin of Acts and Decrees 2021, 467).
The new law intends to criminalise the person who performs sexual acts with a sex worker while he or she knows or should reasonably suspect that the sex worker has been forced or induced to do so, in other words, is a victim of human trafficking (section 273g of the Penal Code).
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Can the police read my smartphone?
On 09 Mar 2020 | In Criminal Cases | By: Mr. Berndsen
"When I was arrested, the police seized my smartphone. Now the police want access to my smartphone to search or read it. Is that okay?"
This is a question that is often asked of us, not only in cybercrime cases. In all kinds of criminal cases, detectives sometimes want access to the smartphone to search for photos, contacts, location data, Whatsapp messages, text messages, etcetera. As part of the investigation, the police are authorised to seize a smartphone. Because the contents of modern phones are usually encrypted, the police often cannot simply unlock the smartphone.

















