A Critical Examination of the Additional Jurisdiction of Special Criminal Courts in the Face of Criminal Cooperation

Document Type : Original Article

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Master of Science in Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Iran
10.22034/lc.2025.489251.1560
Abstract
The legislator does not have the same ruling regarding the additional jurisdiction of specialized criminal courts in the face of criminal cooperation, and in cases where the persons involved in committing a crime are persons whose charges are dealt with based on personal jurisdiction in the jurisdiction of another specialized court, from the general rule of single trial contained in the article 311 Criminal Procedure Law Deviation, which leads to multiple hearings by multiple specialized courts, which conflicts with the philosophy of a single trial in additional jurisdiction and will lead to the issuance of different opinions in a single crime. This research aims to prove that even though some of these special courts such as the special clergy court and the children's court or the revolutionary court with the children's or special clergy courts according to articles 31 and 13 of the charter of the special clergy court and Articles 303 and 314 of the Criminal Procedure Law have a positive conflict turns out that the preference of each of them is the absolute preference, therefore, considering the importance of dealing with some crimes, such as crimes under the jurisdiction of the Revolutionary Court and the specialization of the proceedings, or in cases where the charges of each of the defendants are under the jurisdiction of a different special court, they can be dealt with together. Respecting the dignity and personality of the accused Also, in order to prevent the influence of political and influential people in the jurisdiction of the contract court, which can deal with the matter independently and expertly, taking into account all these cases
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