A comparative study on obstruction of justice crimes in the Iranian and Lebanese laws (With an approach on UN convention against corruption)

Justice administration has been a value for all societies and each judicial system considers it one of the most important aims to be accomplished. So, each society, based on principles, values and culture governing the society, as bribery, perjury, oath, non-endorsement of judgments by concerned persons in charge of it, undue interference. The importance of this object and necessity for crime prevention and fight against corruption and due process of justice led to adoption of "convention against corruption" by General Assembly in year 2003.Necessity for just function of judicial system in law enforcement and due process in courts and punishment of actions hindering the justice administration (including individual) executors and concerned authorities entails that legal systems allocate tries to remove obstacles facing the justice administration and punishes those hindering the administration of justice so that justice prevails in the society. As a result, the legislators in most countries criminalize such behavior, hindering the process of justice. The Lebanese legislators have referred to those actions leading to obstruction of justice in forth section of Book 2 of Punishment Code, through Article 398 to 428. The Iranian legislator has paid attentions to such crimes in different criminal laws and regulations; such same parts of criminal laws for criminalization of examples of crimes against judicial justice (obstruction of justice)