Abstract
The introduction summarizes the main benefits of the Victims of Crime Act. Moreover, the authors deal with terminological inaccuracies and the issue of absent specification of the Act's purpose.
Futhermore, the authors deal, beyond the existing knowledge, with issue of implementation of the victims' right to information, which causes the greatest difficulties in practice. As far as the right to information is concerned, the authors propose, also with regard to the EU law, major conceptual changes consisting in expressly allowing police authority not to advise a victim during the first contact in some justified cases and in fundamental simplification and clarification of this situation.
The article aslo addresses major problems caused by the Victims of Crime Act that were directly or indirectly amended by the Code of Criminal Procedure.