ON THE INTENTIONALITY OF PROCEDURAL ACTS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS IN THE LIGHT OF THE LATEST RESEARCH ON THE CONCEPT OF THE CONVENTIONAL ACT IN LAW

In the literature, owing to Olgierd Bogucki, it has been proposed that intention be recognized as a constitutive element of conventional acts and to use an intentional explanation of conventional acts in law. In this article, the author aims to verify whether the new proposals contribute to research on the conception of conventional acts in criminal proceedings. The author examines the relationship between the concept of conventional acts adopted in the procedural criminal law doctrine and the new approaches, juxtaposing them with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure. For this purpose, the author uses the theoretical -legal method as well as the legal -dogmatic method. The author shows that neither the concept of the constitutive aspect proposed by Bogucki nor the intentional explanation of conventional acts are suitable for conducting assessments and interpretations of conventional acts in criminal proceedings. However, the primary and epistemic aspects described by Bogucki may, under certain conditions, be subject to reception in the field of criminal procedural law. Neither are the rules of falsification per his approach applicable in criminal proceedings. The considerations in question constitute a novel contribution to research on the conception of conventional acts in criminal proceedings because the proposed approach has not been analysed in the doctrine so far.