The article is dedicated to the impact of the EU law on development of Latvian criminal procedural law norms. It provides a general insight into importance of the EU criminal procedure law in the development of the Criminal Procedure Law norms, the directives of the European Council and the Parliament, the norms of which have been transposed into the Criminal Procedure Law, and the system of procedural guarantees for the participants of proceedings in need of protection, with particular focus on victims with specific protection needs.

The article is dedicated to the issues related to corporate prosecution, which the authors see as relevant. The two main lines explored herein are the applicability of human rights to legal entities and the possibility of using procedural (preventive, security coercive measures during the proceedings. The outcomes of researching the currently valid regulatory enactments and those that have become void, examples of law application and theoretical sources are used to present the authors’ perspective on the most important aspects of the respective issues, problems are foregrounded and proposals are advanced to facilitate further discussion.

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The article is devoted to some recent issues of deprivation of liberty, which is applied in the course of criminal proceedings -basically, arrest and detention -in Latvian criminal procedure law, addressing: (1) extending the cases of arrest, (2) an unclear situation of detention and arrest of juveniles when committing a less serious crime. The current situation is characterised and solutions suggested.