Citaat | Parket bij de Hoge Raad 3 september 2021

Onder 3.36 Parket bij de Hoge Raad 3 september 2021

Een alinea uit Parket bij de Hoge Raad 3 september 2021, ECLI:NL:PHR:2021:783.

However, a person's right in a criminal case to be presumed innocent and to require the prosecution to bear the onus of proving the allegations against him or her is not absolute, since presumptions of fact or of law operate in every criminal-law system and are not prohibited in principle by the Convention, as long as States remain within reasonable limits, taking into account the importance of what is at stake and maintaining the rights of the defence (see Salabiaku v. France, judgment of 7 October 1988, Series A no. 141-A, pp. 15-16, § 28). Thus, in employing presumptions in criminal law, the Contracting States are required to strike a balance between the importance of what is at stake and the rights of the defence; in other words, the means employed have to be reasonably proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued (see Västberga Taxi Aktiebolag and Vulic v. Sweden, no. 36985/97, § 113, 23 July 2002).”

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