Journal of Law and Administrative Sciences Special Issue/2015 282 Ensuring a uniform judicial practice by the provisions of the current criminal procedure code Professor Anca-Lelia LORINCZ, PhD. Police Academy "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Bucharest, Romania lelia.lorincz@gmail.com Abstract: The current Criminal Procedure Code has brought substantial changes in the matter of judgment by reconfiguring the system of appeals against criminal judgments and by introduction of separate provisions for ensuring a uniform judicial practice: provisions governing the appeal on points of law and governing the new institution of referral to the High Court of Cassation and Justice in a ruling prior to unraveling some points of law. Keywords: criminal trial; judgment; appeal; uniformity of judicial practice; legislative changes 1. Introduction In the current Criminal Procedure Code [1], due to rethinking the system of review procedures, are regulated four exceptions to the principle of res judicata of final criminal judgments: the extraordinary appeal, an appeal in cassation, review and reopening of the criminal trial in case of judgement in the absence of the convicted person. Regarding the appeal of the annulment, although initially adopted in 2010 in the form of the Code of Criminal Procedure has not been governed under review procedures (as in the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1968), but in a separate chapter of Title III - "Judgement" of Special Part of the Code, this inconsistency was corrected by Law no. 255/2013 for the implementation of the Code of Criminal Procedure [2], the appeal for annulment being reintroduced into the Chapter for review procedures. A first difference from previous legislation (Criminal Procedure Code from 1968) consists of adding to the system of review procedures, two new institutions; appeal in cassation and reopening of criminal proceedings in case of judgment in the absence of the convicted person. The appeal in cassation (designed by transforming the former appeal, regulated in the previous legislation as an ordinary appeal for the extraordinary remedy) aims to ensure a uniform practice throughout the country [3], through this extraordinary appeals,