The Criminal Justice Act Guidelines

This book which has been written in the Legal General Office of the Legal Deputy, as well as the Criminal Justice Guidelines Act of 2013 and its addendums and amendments, the consultative opinions of the Legal General Office, the obsolete articles of the law, relevant articles of the law, and the unity decision of the Supreme Court are also included.
According to IRNA's announcement, in this book in which the Legal Depute of the Judiciary Zabihollah Khodaian while writing a foreword, introduces the said law and he deems its main message is the provision of judicial and fair justice security and numerous innovations in the new Criminal Justice Guidelines Act.
The guaranteeing of the accused right to defense, the change in the approach of the legislator from the detecting justice towards accusatory justice in the initial investigations, the possibility of the presence of defense attorney in the all stages of the procedures, the writing of the rights of the accused while being monitored, the removal of forced temporary arrest, foreseeing the compensation of the innocent who have mistakenly been arrested, setting up a character file for the accused, and protection of witnesses an victims of crime, are some of the strong points and innovations which the Legal Deputy of the Judiciary points out in the foreword of the book.
The announcement adds, some of the other benefits of this Law include: the adoption of the criminal segregation policy for the accused or crimes that have special characteristics such as the trial of children and juveniles, the armed forces, computer crimes and legal individuals, establishing the supervision of the Attorney General of the country on courts in provincial capitals and the prosecutors of provincial capitals, development of online trial proceedings, transparency in the control of telecom and internet communications in the implementation of article 25 of the Constitution, creation of a social working unit and strengthening the implementation of verdicts with legal privileges for correct supervision of correct application of verdicts particularly alternative to imprisonment punishments.
The said book which has been published by the national official newspaper institute and in Shomaregan in 12 thousand copies, due to the effective role that it plays in the removal of ambiguities of the Criminal Justice Guidelines Act, and the establishment of unity in procedures in the courts, is available to use by judges, lawyers and the legal community. And to this aim the Legal Deputy has distributed 8000 copies to deputies and organizations, centres under the auspices and justice departments of all the country.