Dovydas
Lawyer · Vilnius, Lithuania
- 4 cases handled
- 13+ years in practice
- Speaks: English, Russian
- Bachelor Degree in Law, Mykolas Romeris university
Assault Charges in Lithuania
This page is for a person accused of assault or of causing injury in Lithuania, and for family helping from abroad. It explains how Lithuanian law grades the harm, how a pre-trial investigation runs and what an English-speaking criminal lawyer does for the accused.
About Assault Charges in Lithuania
Assault charges in Lithuania are brought as offences of impairment of health (sveikatos sutrikdymas) or, in the mildest cases, of causing physical pain (fizinio skausmo sukėlimas). In English the same situation is described as an assault charge, bodily harm, causing injury or a fight that ended with a police report. This page is for the person accused and for relatives helping from abroad; it is general information, not legal advice. Some older lists and lawyer pages call this service “Assault Cases”.
Who needs this
Visitors and foreign residents after a fight in a bar or on the street, a quarrel with a neighbour, a driver or a door attendant, or a complaint made by someone they know. The first contact is often a call from the police inviting the person to give a statement as a suspect (įtariamasis).
How a case runs in Lithuania
- The law grades the harm as minor, moderate or serious impairment of health (nežymus, nesunkus or sunkus sveikatos sutrikdymas). A forensic medical examination usually settles the grade, and the grade decides which rules and penalties apply.
- For more serious harm the police open a pre-trial investigation (ikiteisminis tyrimas) supervised by a prosecutor (prokuroras), whether or not the injured person wants a case.
- For the mildest forms the injured person's own complaint plays a central role, and some of these cases are taken to court by the injured person rather than by the prosecutor.
- In certain less serious cases the law allows criminal liability to end when the accused and the injured person reconcile and the harm is made good (susitaikymas); whether that route exists depends on the offence and on the person's history.
- Self-defence (būtinoji gintis) is assessed on the evidence: witnesses, camera recordings and medical reports.
What to pay attention to
A statement given without a lawyer or a proper interpreter is hard to correct later. Medical records, photographs and the names of witnesses are easiest to gather in the first days after the incident. A suspect can be given a pre-trial measure (kardomoji priemonė), such as an obligation to live at a set address or to register with the police, which can affect plans to leave Lithuania. When the accusation comes from a partner or a family member, the rules on protection from domestic violence can apply as well.
What an English-speaking lawyer does
The lawyer explains the suspicion and the stage of the case, attends the questioning, asks for the medical findings and the other evidence, raises self-defence or other circumstances, explores reconciliation where the law allows it and represents the accused in court. A person who was injured and wants their own lawyer finds information under legal representation for crime victims; protection measures between partners are explained under restraining orders. A conviction may later appear on a criminal record certificate. More on criminal law in Lithuania.
Questions and answers
Is a blow that left no visible injury a crime in Lithuania?
Causing physical pain can be an offence in itself, even without a lasting injury. How the matter is handled depends on the degree of harm and on whether the injured person complains.
The other person says they will drop the complaint. Does the case end?
For the mildest forms the injured person's position can decide whether the case goes on. For more serious harm the prosecutor decides, although reconciliation and compensation can still matter. A lawyer checks which rules apply to the facts.
Can I leave Lithuania while I am a suspect?
That depends on whether a pre-trial measure has been imposed. Leaving does not stop the case, and summonses keep coming to the address given to the investigators.
Will there be an interpreter?
A suspect who does not understand Lithuanian has the right to an interpreter and to a defence lawyer from the first questioning.
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