Legal status of victims of crime in criminal proceedings according to the Libyan Criminal Procedure Code

Abstract

It became clear to us through following the texts regulating the course of the criminal case, that the policy followed by the legislator regarding the victims of crime is marred by a kind of deficiency, as this appears in view of the status granted to the victim, which made his position marginal and does not agree with the reality of his situation in the criminal phenomenon, and does not keep pace with the modern developments of criminal policy that settled on the necessity of granting him a greater role in the various stages of the criminal case, and perhaps the most obvious position in which the balance of justice appeared in favor of the accused at the expense of his victim was related to depriving the latter of appealing the criminal ruling and some decisions issued by the investigating authority, which affected his opportunity to obtain appropriate compensation or participate in the procedures aimed at revealing the truth, as the multiple manifestations of the supremacy of the criminal case over the civil case contributed to this represented in the refusal of the victim to intervene as a plaintiff in the civil right during the preliminary investigation stage, and the permissibility of referring his case to the civil judiciary after he suffered the hardships of filing it before the criminal judiciary, so he finds himself forced to wait for a criminal ruling in whose procedures he did not participate, which were originally only there to protect him and relieve him of his stumbling, so that it falls on him Injustice where justice was supposed to come.