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CURRICULUM VITAE
Family name Hirvelä
First names Päivi Maarit
Sex Female
Date of birth 10 December 1954
Place of birth Rovaniemi, Finland
Nationality
Finnish
Title
State Prosecutor
Organisation Office of
the Prosecutor General
Education and academic qualifications
Licentiate of Laws, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1997 Court training,
District Court of Lapland, 1980 Master of Laws, University of Helsinki,
Finland, 1980, Matriculation examination at Rovaniemi
High School, Finland, 1975
Relevant professional activities
Judicial activities International
positions held:
Lawyer, the European Court of Human Rights (18 June – 31 December 2001, on leave from the Office of the Prosecutor
General)
Exchange prosecutor in Sweden (1 April – 30 June 1999, on leave from the Office of the Prosecutor
General)
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Domestic positions held:
Judge for a total of 9 years, prosecutor
for 16 years State Prosecutor, Office of The Prosecutor General (1 February
1999 - )
District Prosecutor, Lahti Prosecutor’s Office (1
September 1990 – 31 January 1999)
Assistant Judge of the Court of Appeal, Kouvola
Court of Appeal (1 August 1982 – 31 August 1990)
Referendary, Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman
(14 September 1998 – 31 January 1999, ancillary job)
District Judge, Lahti District Court (1 October
1994 – 31 December 1995, on leave from the District
Prosecutor’s Office)
District Judge, Orimattila District Court (1
February – 31 May 1990, on leave from the Court of Appeal)
District Prosecutor, Lahti Prosecutor’s Office (1
January 1986 – 4 April 1988, on leave from the Court of Appeal)
District Judge, Lahti District Court (1982 - 1986
many periods, ancillary job)
Legal Aid Counsel in Lahti (1 June – 31 August
1982)
Legal Aid Counsel in Sodankylä (12 November 1981 –
28 February 1982)
Rural Police Chief, Kolari Police District (22 May
– 21 June 1980)
b. Non-judicial legal activities
Assistant in Criminal and Procedural Law, University of Helsinki, Faculty of
Law
(1 July 1996 – 31 March 1997, on leave from the District Prosecutor’s Office)
Researcher, University of Helsinki (1 January – 30 June 1996, on leave from
the District Prosecutor’s Office)
Research Assistant, The National Research Institute of Legal Policy (28
August – 21 November 1980)
Activities and experience in the field
of human rights
Public office
Member of a working group set up by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health
tasked with regulations concerning the Mental Health Act: those concerning
criminal patients in the Penal Code (2005 – 2006).
Board member of the National Research Institute of Legal Policy 2004 -
Member of a working group set up by the Ministry of Justice tasked, based on
international obligations, with preparing penal provisions in respect of
trafficking in human beings, the sexual abuse of children, child pornography
and illegal immigration (2002 – 2003).
Member of an expert working group set up by the Ministry of Social Affairs
and Health to develop the practice to uncover offences against children (2001
– 2003). Member of a working group set up by the Ministry of Justice tasked
with assessing the use of video hearings in courts of law in the case of
intimidated witnesses (2003).
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Member of a working group that focused
on the arrangement of prosecutors’ basic training (2000 –2001).
Member of the crime prevention committee set up by the Ministry of Justice
(1999 –2002).
Member of a working group tasked with the revision of the legislation on the
execution of sentences to social service and the tasks of Probation Services
(1998 – 1999).
Teaching work in the field of criminal procedure for prosecutors and other
government organisations.
Publications
A book ISBN 951-670-003-9: A Child in Criminal Proceedings
An article, the Journal of the Finnish Lawyers’ Association, vol. 95, 1997
number 7: A Child in Criminal Proceedings – Evidence Problems in Incest Cases
Currently in the process of writing my doctoral thesis with the title:
Criminal Process in Sexual Crimes against Children. The Actualization of The
Human and Basic Rights of a Child’s Integrity in a Legal Process”. Opponents
assigned for doctoral thesis on 23 February 2006.
I confirm that I will take up permanent residence in Strasbourg if elected a judge on the Court.
Helsinki
21.2.2006
(Signed)
Päivi Hirvelä
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