国际刑事司法协助制度的若干新发展

《联合国打击跨国有组织犯罪公约》和《联合国反腐败公约》对国际刑事司法协助制度的新近发展作出了一定程度的总结,特别是确立了以追缴被非法转移的犯罪所得或收益为中心的司法协助新体系,放宽了双重犯罪原则对非强制性司法协助活动的限制作用,全面推广司法协助"中央机关"的联系机制,同时,倡导各国在条件允许的情况下采纳远程视频听证和联合调查的取证新方式。这些发展所涉及的一些新规则值得加以深入研究。

New Developments in Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters

"United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime" and " United Nations Convention Against Corruption" made a summarization of the recent development of international judicial assistance system in criminal procedures to some extent, established new judicial assistance system focus on pursuing illegal transferred proceeds of crime or income of crime in particular, broadened the restriction that principle of dual criminality has exerted on non - compulsory judicial assistance activities, spread contact mechanism of judicial assistance " central authority" all-around, and at the same time, sparkplug countries to adopt new forensics methods such as hearing by video conference whenever the condition allows. The new rules referred to in the above developments deserve deep intensive study.