serious crimes definition
serious crimes means, at least:
serious crimes means at least:(a) terrorism;(b) any of the offences defined in Article 3(1)(a) of the 1988 United Nations Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances;(c) the activities of criminal organisations as defined in Article 1 of Joint Action 98/733/JHA(d) fraud, at least serious, as defined in Article 1(1) and Article 2 of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities’ financial interests;(e) corruption;(f) all offences which are punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a maximum of more than one year or, as regards those States which have a minimum threshold for offences in their legal system, all offences punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a minimum of more than six months”. “(7) “serious crimes” means at least:(a) terrorism;(b) any of the offences defined in Article 3(1)(a) of the 1988 United Nations Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances;(c) the activities of criminal organisations as defined in Article 1 of Joint Action 98/733/JHA(d) fraud, at least serious, as defined in Article 1(1) and Article 2 of the Convention on the protection of the European Communities’ financial interests;(e) corruption;(f) all offences which fall under the areas listed in (a) to (e) above which are punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention order for a maximum of more than one year or, as regards those States which have a minimum threshold for offences in their legal system, all offences punishable by deprivation of liberty or a detention orderfor a minimum of more than six months”.
serious crimes means any felony crime; the attempt to commit any
More Definitions of serious crimes
serious crimes seems to refer to individual acts, over which “[f]ormal courts provided for under the Constitution shall exercise jurisdiction” (Clause 6.1). Allegations of gross human rights violations, on the other hand, shall be “adjudicated” by “[f]ormal courts and tribunals established by law” (Clause 6.2). It is not immediately clear that there is a real difference between these two expressions. However, it must be presumed that it is not by chance that crimes and human rights violations have been dealt with in different provisions. This might mean that the jurisdiction of the WCD does not cover human rights violations as such.29 This is proper, since “violating human rights” is not an established crime under either Ugandan or international law; even though some acts that constitute “serious crimes” also constitute human rights violations, different subjects are responsible – the individual and the state respectively – and the legal requisites are different. Hence, human rights violations should most likely be adjudicated only as civil claims in one form or the other, which I will deal with further in section III.A.