Practice question · Numerical answer
How many identities must coincide before the principle of non bis in idem prevents a second sanction?
Hints
- The same person is one of them.
- Subject, facts, and foundation.
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3
Why
Three: the same subject, the same facts, and the same foundation. The third is the one that is argued about, because it asks whether the two sanctions protect the same interest. Two sanctions on one person for one episode can both survive if, and only if, they are protecting genuinely different things.
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