Procedural safeguards for people with disabilities. Application of Article 4(i) of Law 8/2016 in criminal proceedings

Our society represented the Centre for Legal Resources (CRJ), an NGO that carries out programmes to defend the rights of people with disabilities and which monitored a residential centre where such people are housed, showing that it also has legal standing in the criminal proceedings investigating the findings of the monitoring. Thus, in those cases where one or more persons with disabilities in the monitored institution are the main subject of the proceedings, the organisation has in principle access to the same procedural means as the protected person.

Therefore, in the case known as the Ilfov shelters case, the prosecution body found that the CRJ has such a legal standing and can exercise the procedural rights of the injured persons who fall into the mentioned category.