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Raising claims in insolvency proceedings
Němcová, Petra ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Zoulík, František (referee)
v anglickém jazyce The subject of presented Master's degree thesis is Raising claims in insolvency proceedings. The purpose of this thesis is to analyze this issue from the view of present legislation and judicial decisions and to point out some interpretation problems. Recent amendments of legal regulation as well as proposed bills were taken into account too. This thesis is divided into nine chapters. Chapter One introduces an initial part of insolvency proceedings, which starts with the commencement of insolvency proceedings and ends with the decision on the bankruptcy. It is concerned with an insolvency petition and analyzes its requirements and effects. This is followed by description of a court procedure regarding the alternatives of decisions on the insolvency petition. The consequences of unfounded insolvency petition and subsequent liability of petitioner were not left without attention as well. Chapter Two is focused on the creditor as a participant in the insolvency proceedings. Creditors are divided into five groups by the character of their claims. In these groups is a position of creditors in the proceedings defined especially with regards to the way of raising their claims. Next two chapters represent the key part of this thesis. As its title suggests, it relates to raising claims in...
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Legal disputes caused by execution and bankruptcy proceedings
Vepřková, Petra ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Zoulík, František (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to define the disputes arising from the execution and bankruptcy proceedings, to categorize them to the systematic framework, to outline their nature and to create a comprehensive overview about these disputes. The thesis is devided into three chapters, which are subdevided into subsections and parts. The first chapter of this work is aimed to the general issues, that have the influence on creating and forming of disputes resulting from the execution and insolvency proceedings, because it would be impossible to capture this topic coherently without these initial premises. Thereof, there are incorporated the conceptual definition of the execution proceedings and the principles of the execution proceedings, particularly considering the principle of protection of the obliged person and the principle of protection of third parties. In the part dealing with the aspects that form the disputes in the insolvency proceedings there are indicated the historical development of the insolvency, the overall characteristic of the insolvency proceedings, its specific principles and the difference from the former legislation. Further, for making a general overview of disputes arising from the execution and insolvency proceedings, there is also included in the first chapter the classification...
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Position of creditors in insolvency proceedings
Štefeček, Ondřej ; Zoulík, František (advisor) ; Smolík, Petr (referee)
The theme of my graduation thesis is "The Status of Bankruptcy Creditors in Insolvency Proceedings according to the Act No. 182/2006 Coll., (The Insolvency Act)". The purpose of my thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis aimed at creditor's rights and duties during insolvency proceedings, with a special attention focused on selected topics. One of my goals is to highlight the big progress of creditors achieved with the new legal regulation. I also concern myself with those provisions of The Insolvency Act, which from my perspective offer an ambiguous interpretation. Therefore application of these provisions may cause problematic situation difficult to be resolved. The thesis is structured into seven chapters. The first two parts are dedicated to a general introduction to the insolvency law with an accent to basic legal principles and institutes of insolvency proceedings. We find there also a brief historical overview of insolvency in Czech Republic as well as general aspects of replacing The Act No. 328/1991 Coll., on bankruptcy and settlement (The Bankruptcy and Settlement Act) with a new Insolvency Act. In Chapter 3, I describe the basic creditor's instruments they can use in order to impact the effectiveness of their claims satisfaction mentioning also one of the bankruptcy conditions which is the...
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Discharge of a debtor - one of modes of insolvency solution
Polák, Marek ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Zoulík, František (referee)
The legal enactment No. 182/2006 Sb., Insolvency Act that came into force on January 1st 2008 introduced the new concept of Discharge of Debts in the Czech Law system. This mode of solution is intended solely for non-entrepreneurs (this institute cannot be used for companies or individual entrepreneurs). Personal bankruptcies account for the majority of insolvency proceedings in the territory of the Czech Republic and it can be assumed that this long-lasting trend will continue to grow. The institute of Discharge of Debts gives consumers an effective opportunity to legally get rid of their debts through one of two ways, namely repayment schedule and sale of the debtor's assets, and start again with a clean slate as an active member of the Economic Society. The aim of this thesis is to give a comprehensive analysis of the institute of Discharge of Debts, from defining the causes that lead to bankruptcy, interpretation of basic concepts, to the description of the necessary proceedings leading to the declaration of bankruptcy, process of Discharge of Debts itself and differences of its two basic ways. This theoretical basis is supplemented by my knowledge that I have gained during my internship in a law office, which also performs the function of insolvency trustee. The thesis is composed of eight...
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Discharge of a debtor - one of modes of insolvency solution
Rothová, Kateřina ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Zoulík, František (referee)
Indebtedness of individuals non-entrepreneurs and their subsequent inability to pay their obligations duly and on time was reflected not only in legislation designed to protect consumers but also to law that props up the debtor's financial position and provides him a second chance for a fresh start free of debt. The Insolvency Act passed through development during its efficiency i.e. from 1st August 2008, a considerable development, and according to the number of submitted insolvency proposals it became a legal instrument used by debtors to manage and address solving of their situation. We will be able to assess efficiency of utilisation this notion enabling discharge from debts in the next two or three years, when enough evidence should be available to evaluate the success of approved debt reliefs through the payment schedule. Court decision taking adapted the Insolvency Act also to the possibility of debt relief for spouses who are in most cases engaged in joint commitments under the joint property of spouses. The debt relief for spouses, however, brings a couple of questions and insolvency courts do not approach to proceed it in uniformly way. It is therefore important to prepare major amendment to the Insolvency Act, from which we expect not only the unification of court decisions, as well as...
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Rights and duties of the insolvency trustee in bankruptcy
Zouchová, Barbora ; Pohl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Macková, Alena (referee)
Rights and duties of the insolvency trustee in bankruptcy The topic of this Master's thesis is rights and duties of the insolvency trustee in bankruptcy. The aim of the thesis is to describe activities of insolvency trustee that are related to the solution of debtor's decline by bankruptcy. The insolvency trustee is an important subject of insolvency proceedings; in the case of bankruptcy his task is primarily related to activities associated with the estate, with its liquidation and distribution of proceeds. First chapter focuses on insolvency proceedings in general. First part deals with historical context; second part analyzes the process of insolvency proceedings with a respect to different ways of resolving the debtor's decline - reorganization, discharge from debts and specific ways (i.e. a slight decline and the bankruptcy of financial institutions). In the next chapter, the bankruptcy is discussed as another way how to solve the debtor's decline, regarding to the subject of the thesis. The third chapter is divided to two sections. The first analyzes the term "insolvency trustee" and also defines specific types of this subject of insolvency proceedings. Individual subsections focus on the each specific type. The second section deals with responsibility of insolvency trustee. The last and...
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Position of the creditors in the insolvency proceedings
Bridová, Lenka ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Zoulík, František (referee)
The subject of thesis is "The position of the creditors in the insolvency proceedings". The purpose of my thesis is not only to bring the position of creditors as individuals or as part of the creditor body, but also notice the significant changes which the bankruptcy law was amended. These changes especially strengthened the status of creditors in exercise of claim in insolvency proceedings and in the control of procedure. The thesis is composed of five chapters, each of them are divided to parts, which attend to particular theme. The first chapter is the introduction of its own rules of insolvency law. The second chapter examines the participation of creditors in insolvency proceedings, especially in view of the statutory condition - multiplicity of creditors in the part 2.1. Following the part 2.2 approximates the beginning of the insolvency proceedings then the notice of insolvency proposal. In this chapter also made an excursion to the provisions about the moratorium, which ensures the protection of the debtor. Part 2.3 is concerned with exercise of claims and on the grounds of that with their dividing. Part 2.4 deals with the problem deliberation and negation of claims. The last part 2.5 is address to incidental disputes and incidental action. The third chapter is divided into two parts that...
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Determinants of Claims Satisfaction in Insolvency Proceedings in the Czech Republic
Pařízek, Petr ; Skuhrovec, Jiří (advisor) ; Luňáčková, Petra (referee)
This paper examines determinants of creditors' claims satisfaction in insolvency proceedings in the Czech Republic. To our knowledge, it is the first research to such extent in the Czech Republic covering this field. Combining microdata from Insolvency Register, Business Register, Ministry of Finance and other sources, we construct a unique dataset of more than 2,600 cases. We identify several basic determinants of satisfaction: a higher share of secured claims, real estate and cash in assets of a company, submission of financial statements into Business Register, selling the business as a whole within the proceedings, and entrepreneur cases. We find no such effect for the audit of financial statements or for the age of a company. Moreover, we search for other indicators that may result in the lower satisfaction of claims, out of which five are statistically significant: a homeless person in statutory body, registered office at a firm nest, being listed as unreliable VAT payer, a connection to persons that have multiple records in Insolvency Register and a substantial increase in depreciation in the period between the last two submitted financial statements. In contradiction to the bankruptcy prediction literature, we show that the financial data are unreliable for predicting the outcome of insolvency...
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Insolvency practitioner in case of resolution of the debtor's insolvency by bankruptcy
Hriníková, Eliška ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Winterová, Alena (referee)
The purpose of insolvency proceedings in case of bankruptcy is to find out registered proof of dept and its subsequent relative satisfaction from the proceeds of the realization of estate. The main activities of the insolvency practitioner in the performance of his function is to review the filed claims of creditors, the findings of the estate and its subsequent inventory, management and sale. Position of the insolvency practitioner in the insolvency proceedings is a complicated issue, which is in our legal environment little discussed by legal theorists and it is necessary in many cases work solely on the insolvency practice. The aim of the thesis is to evaluate the current legislation regarding the insolvency practitioner and his role in insolvency proceedings with respect to the professional literature, the applicable legislation and case law. The thesis also shows the complexity of the position of the insolvency practitioner. At the beginning of the second chapter is given a definition of procedural subjects in insolvency proceedings and theoretical understanding of the function of the insolvency practitioner. The second chapter describes the particular position of the insolvency practitioner, on the basis of its relations with other procedural subjects. The third chapter specifies the basic...
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Reorganization as the way of bankruptcy solution
Holevová, Jana ; Pohl, Tomáš (advisor) ; Macková, Alena (referee)
The intention of the thesis, on theme of Reorganization as the way of bankruptcy solution, is to describe this legal institute complexly and coherently. It begins from the history, continues through the current legislation and finishes with a practical point of view to reorganization and its implications in practice. The first chapter describes influences which affected reorganization in the Czech legal environment. First of all, the insolvency law was affected by historical circumstances in the Czech lands and by changes of political regimes to which the legislation was subordinated. Another subsection is addressed to foreign influences which were used as an inspiration for the legislator during creating of the current legislation. Mainly, it is an American and German legislation. In the last subsection, the EU legislation regarding reorganization is elaborated including effects of the harmonization in the Czech Republic. The second chapter of the thesis describes the legislation of reorganization in the Czech Republic and completes it of the case law especially of the High courts in Prague and Olomouc. The institutes are elaborated one by one according to the order made in the Insolvency act and in order which is usually used during insolvency proceedings. The last subsection is focused on a...
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