La nuova dimensione dell’impugnazione per i soli interessi civili

With the precise objective of making the criminal process more efficient, the legislator, with the so-called Cartabia reform has had a significant impact on appeals for civil interests only. In particular, the reform has remodeled the concrete possibility of protecting civil interests in criminal proceedings by providing, on the one hand, greater rigor in the moment in which the injured party decides to exercise civil action in criminal proceedings and, on the other, broadening the hypothesis of escape necessary with continuation of the judgment in civil proceedings in the event that there is an appeal for civil interests only (art. 573, paragraph 1 bis, c.p.p.) or criminal action cannot be proceeded due to the expiry of the terms in judgments of appeal.