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Helena Morão Ricardo Tavares da Silva Editors Fairness in Criminal Appeal A Critical and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the ECtHR Case-Law Fairness in Criminal Appeal (cid:129) Helena Morão Ricardo Tavares da Silva Editors Fairness in Criminal Appeal A Critical and Interdisciplinary Analysis of the ECtHR Case-Law Editors HelenaMorão RicardoTavaresdaSilva ResearchCentreforCriminalLawand ResearchCentreforCriminalLawandCriminal CriminalSciences(CIDPCC) Sciences(CIDPCC) UniversityofLisbonSchoolofLaw UniversityofLisbonSchoolofLaw Lisbon,Portugal Lisbon,Portugal ISBN978-3-031-13000-7 ISBN978-3-031-13001-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13001-4 ©TheEditor(s)(ifapplicable)andTheAuthor(s),underexclusivelicensetoSpringerNatureSwitzerland AG2023 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsaresolelyandexclusivelylicensedbythePublisher,whether thewholeorpartofthematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseof illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similarordissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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ThisSpringerimprintispublishedbytheregisteredcompanySpringerNatureSwitzerlandAG Theregisteredcompanyaddressis:Gewerbestrasse11,6330Cham,Switzerland Acknowledgments This book is the result of a research seminar held between July 2021 and June 2022 at CIDPCC (Research Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences), the PortugueseresearchcentrespecificallyfocusedonCriminalLaw,supportedbyFCT (FundaçãoparaaCiênciaeTecnologia). Theeditorsareverygratefultoalltheauthors.Specialmentionmustbemadeof ProfessorsMassimoCeresa-Gastaldo andAntonioMªLaraLópezwhoacceptedto joinourproject. ThisworkisdedicatedtoCriminalLawProfessorMariaFernandaPalmaonthe 30thanniversaryofherPhD,thefirstPhDinCriminalLawawardedinPortugaltoa woman. HelenaMorão RicardoTavaresdaSilva v About This Book This book addresses the European Court of Human Rights’ fairness standards in criminalappeal,fillingagapinthislessresearchedareaofstudies.Basedonafair trial immediacyrequirement, theCourt hasfoundseveralviolationsofArticle6of theEuropeanConventiononHumanRightsattheappellatelevelbyatleasteighteen States of the Council of Europe in a vast array of cases, particularly in contexts of firstinstanceacquittalsoverturningandofsentencesincreasingonappeal. Ontheonehand,thebookcriticallyengagesthiscase-lawwiththelawrevisions it has recently inspired in European countries, as well as with the critiques and difficultiesthatitcontinuestoraise.Ontheotherhand,itinterweavesinsightfrom criminal procedure theory with new discoveries in the field of cognitive sciences (neuroscience of memory, philosophy of knowledge, AI), shedding an interdisci- plinarylightonthe(in)adequacyandlimitsoftheStrasbourgCourt’sjurisprudence. vii Contents PartI Introduction 1 TheECtHRCase-LawonImmediacyinCriminalAppeal. . . . . .. 3 HelenaMorão PartII CriminalAppealImmediacyModelsandtheECtHR Case-Law 2 TheEvidenceRenewalModelinItaly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 MassimoCeresa-Gastaldo 3 TheRetrialModelinSpain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 AntonioMª.LaraLópez 4 TheRecordingsModelinPortugal:TheAppealCourt’s Perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 RitadoRosário 5 TheRecordingsModelinPortugal:TheDefendant’sandthe Victim’sPerspectives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 TiagoGeraldoandNunoIgrejaMatos PartIII ImmediacyinCriminalProcedureTheoryandCognitive Sciences 6 ImmediacyattheFirstInstanceTrial. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 MafaldaMouraMelim 7 Audio-VisualRecordingsasEvidenceinCriminalProcedure. . . . . 145 AntónioBritoNeves ix x Contents 8 NeuroscienceofMemoryandPhilosophyofKnowledge ChallengestoImmediacy.. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. 163 RicardoTavaresdaSilva 9 AIAssistanceintheCourtroomandImmediacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 CatarinaAbegãoAlves PartIV ConcludingThoughts 10 OntheLegitimacyoftheECtHR’sCriminalAppealImmediacy Requirement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 HelenaMorão About the Editors HelenaMorão isaCriminalLawProfessorattheUniversityofLisbon Schoolof Law where she was awarded her PhD. She is the Deputy Director of the Research CentreforCriminalLawandCriminalSciences(CIDPCC),thePortugueseresearch centre specifically focused on criminal law, as well as the Deputy Director of the journal Anatomy of Crime, Journal of Law and Crime Sciences. Her main field of researchiscriminallawfrombothnormativeandinterdisciplinaryperspectives.She is the author of several works on criminal law, including criminal appeal law, and hasparticipatedasanexpertinvariouscriminallawreforms. RicardoTavaresdaSilva isanInvitedAssistantinCriminalLawattheUniversity ofLisbonSchoolofLaw,wherehewasawardedhisbachelor’sdegree.Healsohasa Master’s degree and a PhD degree in Philosophy from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He is especially interested in Normative Theory and in the foundations of Law, but also in related issues in Philosophy of ActionandPhilosophyofMind,MetaphysicsandEpistemology,CognitiveScience andNeuroscience.HeisamemberandexecutivecoordinatoroftheResearchCentre forCriminalLawandCriminalSciences(CIDPCC). xi Abbreviations CCA CoimbraCourtofAppeal CEPEJ EuropeanCommissionfortheEfficiencyofJustice ECA ÉvoraCourtofAppeal ECHR EuropeanConventiononHumanRights ECtHR EuropeanCourtofHumanRights FCCouncil FrenchConstitutionalCouncil GCA GuimarãesCourtofAppeal ICCass ItalianCourtofCassation ICConst ItalianConstitutionalCourt ICCPR InternationalCovenantonCivilandPoliticalRights ICPP ItalianCodicediProceduraPenale(ItalianCriminalProcedureCode) LCA LisbonCourtofAppeal LECrim LeydeEnjuiciamientoCriminal(SpanishCriminalProcedureAct) LOPJ Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial (Spanish Judicial Power Organic Act) PCA PortoCourtofAppeal PCC PortugueseConstitutionalCourt PCPP Portuguese Código de Processo Penal (Portuguese Criminal ProcedureCode) SC SpanishConstitution SCC SpanishConstitutionalCourt SCJ SupremeCourtofJustice(Portugal) SSC SpanishSupremeCourt SStPO Schweizerische Strafprozessordnung (Swiss Criminal Procedure Code) StPO Strafprozeßordnung(GermanCriminalProcedureCode) xiii
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