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Agreement on guilt and punishment
Skolil, Ondřej ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Vokoun, Rudolf (referee)
Agreement on guilt and punishment - Abstract The topic of this rigorous thesis is an institute of an agreement on guilt and punishment, which is one of the diversions in criminal proceedings that is regulated by our criminal law. Given that the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment is conceptually subordinated to just mentioned concept of diversions in criminal proceedings, this thesis does not deal only with the institute of agreement on guilt and punishment, but also with all other diversions in criminal proceedings, which are regulated by our criminal law. The main usage goal of the institute of an agreement on guilt and punishment is to simplify and speed up the entire criminal proceedings, when thanks to a conclusion of an agreement on guilt and punishment, the entire criminal proceedings can come to a successful conclusion relatively quickly. This thesis is divided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with the concept of diversion in criminal proceedings, the principle of so-called restorative justice, as well as with all the individual diversions in criminal proceedings (with the exception of the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment). Part of this chapter are also statistics, thanks to which the reader of this thesis can find out to what extent the diversion is used...
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Plea bargain: comparison of Czech and German regulation
Sakařová, Michaela ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the institute of agreement process that originates in anglo-american plea bargain, which has been implemented in many criminal proceedings within the countries of continental Europe. Civil law based countries are using agreements in different forms during their criminal proceedings as an alternative to common trials. Its purpose is to make them faster and more simple. Every agreement is different from each other, but one common element is that accused person pleads guilty of crimes he/she is being prosecuted for and also that the authorities involved in given criminal proceeding are willing to make concession in punishment of the prosecuted. Even though this type of solution to overburdened authorities active in criminal proceedings seems to be quite positive, there are some critics that find this method in conflict with some basic principals of continental criminal proceeding. This thesis introduces the agreement process in general view, briefly examines its origins and focuses mainly on its legislation in the Czech Republic and Germany. Legislative force in the Czech Republic implemented the agreement on guilt and punishment into criminal proceedings by an amendment of Criminal Procedure Code No. 193/2012 Sb. as a completely new diversion, respectively as special...
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The selected issues of juvenile criminal justice
Adam, Josef ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
IN ENGLISH The thesis deals with the selected issues of the juvenile criminal justice. The aim of the thesis is to analyze certain issues of the juvenile criminal law, especially the issue of their criminal liability, punishment for their illegal conducts with concentration on upbringing measures, further protection of juvenile privacy and introduction to restorative justice. The respective analyses were realized with respect to historical development of the legal regulation of juvenile justice in the Czech Republic, primarily in form of comparison with the regulation from 1931, which was an inspiration for the current legal act on juvenile justice. Within my thesis I emphasize on aspects of restorative justice and bigger share of upbringing measures.
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An agreement on guilt and punishment
Bořuta, Jan ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
This thesis is dedicated to legal institute of plea bargaining which has been adopted to Czech criminal procedure law on September 1, 2012. The plea bargaining law in the Czech Republic is highly influenced by plea bargaining practise used in different forms in various common law jurisdictions. The thesis is divided into three basic chapters. First chapter of this thesis describes overall background and reasons for adoption of plea bargaining into Czech law. In this chapter the author presents and analyses reasons and desired results the Czech legislature pursues by adoption of plea bargaining and its usage in practise. Second chapter provides a critical view of relation of plea bargaining with the rest of Czech criminal procedure regulation, especially an interaction of plea bargaining with fundamental principles of criminal procedure. Third chapter focuses on whole procedure related to plea bargaining as regulated by current law. This chapter describes and analyses positions of all parties to the process concerned, plea bargaining negotiation process itself and its legal limits. Furthermore it depicts and examines the process of court hearing and position and role of the court within it. The third chapter also concerns several legal measures laid down in order to secure compliance of the plea...
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Agreement on guilt and punishment
Koblasová, Jana ; Říha, Jiří (advisor) ; Tejnská, Katarína (referee)
Agreement on guilt and punishment Abstract The subject of the work is the institute of an agreement on guilt and punishment as a special way of handling criminal cases. The essence of an agreement on guilt and punishment is an agreement between the public prosecutor and the accused, in which the accused confesses to committing the act for which he is being prosecuted, in exchange for imposing a lesser punishment than that which would threaten him in standard criminal proceedings. It is a form of diversion in criminal proceedings, which is intended to speed up and simplify criminal proceedings. The agreement on guilt and punishment is enshrined in the Czech legal system for a relatively short period of time. It was introduced in 2012. As the guilt and punishment agreement did not materialize in practice in the following years, certain changes had to be made. These occurred in 2020 when, for example, an agreement on guilt and punishment was made possible for particularly serious crimes. The work is structured into six chapters. The first chapter deals with the question of whether it is possible to classify the agreement on guilt and punishment among the diversions in criminal proceedings. To answer this question, it was necessary to clarify the very concept of diversion. The work also briefly deals with the...
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The reflection of the Anglo-American institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment in the chosen European countries
Pavlát, Josef ; Mulák, Jiří (advisor) ; Heranová, Simona (referee)
The reflection of the Anglo-American institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment in the chosen European countries Abstract The goal of this thesis is to describe which elements of an Anglo-American institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment (represented by the American federal legal regulation as the most influential regulation of this institute) are reflected in legal regulations of an agreement on guilt and punishment in chosen European countries (Slovakia and the Czech Republic) by a detailed analysis of particular legal regulations. This thesis is supposed to inform about the history of the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment in countries of its origin (England, Wales and the USA) including its spreading into countries with European continental law tradition. The thesis is systematically divided into four chapters. The first chapter discusses the history of the institute of the agreement on guilt and punishment and individual subchapters describe historical development in the USA, historical development in England and Wales including its spreading into countries with European continental law tradition, the author also gives reasons why this is happening. The second chapter is focused on defining of key concepts of the thesis which are 'plea bargaining', the agreement on...
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Plea of Guilty as a Diversion in Criminal Proceedings
Rybářová, Edita ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Heranová, Simona (referee)
1. Plea of Guilty as a Diversion in Criminal Proceedings 1.1.Abstract The plea of guilty has been one of the most discussed topics polarizing the Czech professional and lay public. In 2019, the plea of guilty celebrated seventh anniversary of its existence in the legal framework of the Czech Republic, but it could be hardly described as "lucky" seven within its existence. What are the reasons for the failure of the plea of guilty is the essential task of this thesis. First of all, the thesis deals with forms of diversions in criminal proceedings and their history. Nevertheless, even after seven years of application practice, the professional community is not in a position to agree whether to place the plea of guilty in diversions in criminal proceedings or whether the institute is so specific that it should be assigned to another group of proceedings or perhaps be perceived entirely independently. Given the not entirely simple process of negotiating the plea of guilty in the environment of the Czech Criminal Procedure Code, the thesis also deals with the individual steps of the negotiation process and the formal and material features of the plea of guilty in general. It also affects all conditions and exceptions related to the plea of guilty so as to specify in which cases the plea of guilty cannot be...
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Plea Bargaining at International Criminal Courts
Bartizalová, Markéta ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
S C H O O L O F L AW M A S A RY K U N I V E R S I T Y T H E O R E T I C A L L E G A L S C I E N C E S C R I M I N A L L A W D E P A R T M E N T ABSTRAC T DI S S E RTAT I O N TH E S I S P L E A B A R G A I N I N G A T I N T E R N A T I O N A L C R I M I N A L C O U R T S M A R K É TA B A RT I Z A L O V Á 2 0 1 6 ABSTRACT The subject of this thesis is the practice of plea bargaining in international criminal courts. The thesis generally deals with functions of international criminal law and goals of international criminal tribunals. Critical analysis of whether use of plea bargaining is compatible with these functions and goals follows. Based on research of existing practice of the courts and disputation on arguments of supporters and critics of plea bargaining, the thesis comes to the conclusion, that even though plea bargaining might, in some cases, prove itself as a useful tool for international justice, it remains highly controversial and must be used with the highest caution. If used inappropriately it very easy may cause much damage a may have fatal impact on evaluation of the practice of international criminal tribunals, their legitimacy, and together with that on evolution of international criminal law in general. KEY WORDS international criminal law, plea bargaining, international criminal tribunals,...
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Plea Bargaining at International Criminal Courts
Bartizalová, Markéta ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
S C H O O L O F L AW M A S A RY K U N I V E R S I T Y T H E O R E T I C A L L E G A L S C I E N C E S C R I M I N A L L A W D E P A R T M E N T ABSTRAC T DI S S E RTAT I O N TH E S I S P L E A B A R G A I N I N G A T I N T E R N A T I O N A L C R I M I N A L C O U R T S M A R K É TA B A RT I Z A L O V Á 2 0 1 6 ABSTRACT The subject of this thesis is the practice of plea bargaining in international criminal courts. The thesis generally deals with functions of international criminal law and goals of international criminal tribunals. Critical analysis of whether use of plea bargaining is compatible with these functions and goals follows. Based on research of existing practice of the courts and disputation on arguments of supporters and critics of plea bargaining, the thesis comes to the conclusion, that even though plea bargaining might, in some cases, prove itself as a useful tool for international justice, it remains highly controversial and must be used with the highest caution. If used inappropriately it very easy may cause much damage a may have fatal impact on evaluation of the practice of international criminal tribunals, their legitimacy, and together with that on evolution of international criminal law in general. KEY WORDS international criminal law, plea bargaining, international criminal tribunals,...
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Agreement on guilt and punishment
Šimek, Jaromír ; Pelc, Vladimír (referee)
This master's thesis focuses on the subject-matter of agreement on guilt and punishment. It became a part of Czech Criminal Procedure Code by the enactment of Act no. 193/2012 Coll. The plea bargaining, which is widely spread and used in common law countries, served as an inspiration. It should have primarily enhanced the efficiency and speed of the criminal proceedings. It is a type of diversion which is based on a negotiation between the prosecutor and the defendant. The defendant may plea guilty and require a milder punishment in reverse, comparing to a punishment which would have been imposed if a trial took place. The conducted agreement on guilt and punishment has to be subsequently approved by the judge in a form of the approval judgement. The thesis is divided into four chapters. The first one deals with other alternative ways, by which criminal cases may be solved. The influence and potential disruption of basic principles of the criminal procedure caused by the incorporation of agreement on guilt and punishment, is described as well. A short section is dedicated to previous legislative efforts of incorporation the agreement on guilt and punishment into the Czech legal system. The second chapter outlines the contemporary legal regulation of the agreement of guilt and punishment in the...
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