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Legal opinion on impact assessment of Deputies’ Bill Amending the Criminal Code

Author(s): Natalia Podraza-Majewska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Kancelaria Sejmu
Keywords: Criminal Code; impact assessment; bill

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses the proposed amendments to the Criminal Code. She considers the introduction of the concept of “sexual autonomy” proposed in the bill as unnecessary, due to the existence of the notion of human freedom in the sexual sphere, considered both on a negative and positive level. The bill assumes, inter alia, a change in the statutory features of the crime of rape, which may result in decriminalization of certain cases that are currently covered by the “deception” features in the crime of rape. The author raises substantive doubts about the bill, which in her opinion require further legislative work.

  • Issue Year: 71/2021
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 179-190
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Polish