The Local Jurisdiction of a Court in the Case of a Crime Constituting a Continuous Act. A Comment on the Judgment of the Court of Appeal in Kraków of July 4, 2019, II AKo 94/19.

The study concerns the problem of determining the local jurisdiction of a court in a case of a crime constituting a continuous act. The author contests the position of the Court of Appeal in Kraków, that the place of committing the whole act is the place where the last behaviour constituting it was undertaken. The author draws attention to the fact that in order to determine the place, where the act was committed, factors significant for determining the time of its commission are irrelevant. He states that a continuous act is committed in all places, where any of the behaviour constituting it was undertaken. Therefore, the local jurisdiction should be based on the rule set forth in Article 31 § 1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Keywords: local jurisdiction, place where the act was committed, continuous act.


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