Justice Minister Viliam Karas intends to submit his criminal law reform to the Government in early January 2023, TASR press agency learnt from the Justice Ministry press department on Monday. Karas announced this after his meeting with representatives of the Supreme Court, Prosecutor-General's Office and the Slovak Bar Association earlier in the day. "My aim is to draft a quality criminal law reform that would inspire the widest consensus possible. I find such an approach better than to have partial amendments tabled in the House via MP motions, since the reform would address the issue comprehensively with a single, well-balanced legislation," stated Karas. Representatives of the Supreme Court, Prosecutor-General's Office and Slovak Bar Association declared in their joint statement that: “The Slovak criminal policy is currently being deformed by disproportionately severe punishments that fly in the face of European practice in the case of some crimes.”
Source: TASR
