Congratulations to Justinas Bagdys, who successfully difended dissertation on topic “Exemption from Criminal Liability under Surety”
It is the first time when the subject of thesis is sureties in criminal cases. The main objective of this thesis is to comprehensively examine and evaluate the legal establishment and overall regulation of the exemption from criminal liability under surety in the laws of the Republic of Lithuania, the practice of its application, and to reveal the shortcomings of the legal regulation and practical application. The work pays considerable attention to the issue of the application of surety at different stages of the proceedings, examining this issue in the context of the constitutional principles of the presumption of innocence and the administration of justice, and concluding that the application of surety at trial and the pre-trial investigation stages is fundamentally different.