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Renewal of proceedings
Fejklová, Lucie ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šámal, Pavel (referee)
Remedial measures in criminal law are set mainly to eliminate and correct mistakes, which have occurred in the course of the trial. It acts as a review and a remedy of law and legal defects. It can be divided into regular and special ones. Amid the regular remedial measures belong appeal, complaint and protest, to a group of special remedial measures belong apart from a renewal of proceedings, a review of an appeal and a complaint for the breach of law. Renewal of proceedings is a special remedial measure, which brings with itself interference into legal power. Renewal of proceedings with which one can contest only some legitimate decisions, in which criminal prosecution has already finished, is used for a removal of shortcomings in factual findings, because at that time all the decisive facts had not been known and the evidence, which came up only after the former decision has come into legal force. New evidence or facts underlying this extraordinary breach into inalterability and binding of judgments made in criminal proceedings are only the facts that were not part of evidence or survey or were not applied by any of the parties engaged in the proceedings and the only evidence that was not designed nor made by either party during the proceedings. As new evidence can be even used evidence already...
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Extraordinary remedies in criminal proceedings
Fejklová, Lucie ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (referee)
Remedies in criminal proceedings are designed in particular to remedy and rectify errors and mistakes occurring in the course of the proceeding, and as such serve for the review and rectification of both legal and factual defects. Remedies may be ordinary or extraordinary. Ordinary remedies include appeal, complaint and protest, while extraordinary remedies include extraordinary appeal, complaint for breach of law and renewal of proceeding. The principal prerequisite for the stability of final and enforceable decisions in criminal proceedings is their unchangeability. It is impossible to rule out a serious error, and such a defect in the final and enforceable decision of a law enforcement or judicial body may occur as a result that insisting on its binding and unchangeable nature would disrupt fair and correct decision-making. The finality and enforceability of a decision ought to be pierced in exceptional cases only, and then only when it is necessary and when the stability of the decision cannot be insisted on. Extraordinary appeal was introduced into the Czech legal order by the 2001 amendment to the Criminal Code. This extraordinary legal remedy serves to remedy enumerated defects in the most important types of court decisions, or to review life sentences. Extraordinary appeal can only be used...
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Renewal of proceedings
Fejklová, Lucie ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Šámal, Pavel (referee)
Remedial measures in criminal law are set mainly to eliminate and correct mistakes, which have occurred in the course of the trial. It acts as a review and a remedy of law and legal defects. It can be divided into regular and special ones. Amid the regular remedial measures belong appeal, complaint and protest, to a group of special remedial measures belong apart from a renewal of proceedings, a review of an appeal and a complaint for the breach of law. Renewal of proceedings is a special remedial measure, which brings with itself interference into legal power. Renewal of proceedings with which one can contest only some legitimate decisions, in which criminal prosecution has already finished, is used for a removal of shortcomings in factual findings, because at that time all the decisive facts had not been known and the evidence, which came up only after the former decision has come into legal force. New evidence or facts underlying this extraordinary breach into inalterability and binding of judgments made in criminal proceedings are only the facts that were not part of evidence or survey or were not applied by any of the parties engaged in the proceedings and the only evidence that was not designed nor made by either party during the proceedings. As new evidence can be even used evidence already...
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