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| TITLE | Supreme Court Decision 2020Do1153 Decided August 19, 2022 ¡¼Violation of the Punishment of Violence Act¡½ [full Text] |
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| ¡¼Main Issues and Holdings¡½ Legislative purport of Article 3 of the Addenda of the Criminal Procedure Act amended on December 21, 2007 Whether the ¡°former provisions¡± in the aforesaid Addenda provision include not only Article 249(1) of the former Criminal Procedure Act but also Parag. (2) of the said Article (affirmative) Whether Article 249(2) of the former Criminal Procedure Act applies to a criminal offense committed prior to the implementation of the amended Criminal Procedure Act pursuant to the foregoing Addenda provision, whereby the statute of limitations is considered to have expired once 15 years have passed since the institution of a lawsuit with no finally binding judgment (affirmative) | |


