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Does the Parliament Respect the Constitutional Court?
Staněk, Michal ; Syllová, Jindřiška (referee)
The key concern of the thesis is whether the Parliament has been respecting the Constitutional court. In order to answer this question, the theoretical part resolves the very existence of the Parliament's obligation to follow the Court and its decisions. The empirical part provides two points of view on the subject. First, the role of the Court and its decisions in parliamentary debates is being discussed. Second point analyses the reactions of the parliamentaries in response to Court's findings abolishing a law or its part during the VII. election period of the Chamber of Deputies.
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Case law influence on Czech national and international arbitration proceedings
Sedloňová, Věra ; Růžička, Květoslav (advisor) ; Müller, Milan (referee) ; Poláček, Bohumil (referee)
Case law influence on Czech national and international arbitration Proceedings Abstract Arbitration proceedings represent, besides civil judicial procedures, one of the methods for solution of material disputes in private-law relations. Arbitration proceedings have been used for quite a long time. In our territory they were used already under the rule of Charles IV. For example, Jakub Krčín and Štěpánek Netolický, who were well-known artificial lake engineers, belonged among highly appreciated arbitrators. Significant development of arbitration proceedings was registered after 1949, when the Steady Arbitration Court was established at the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce in May 1949 and exists up to now under the name "Arbitration Court attached to the Czech Chamber of Commerce and the Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic". Legal regulation of arbitration proceedings was undergoing various changes. A principal change occurred in 1964, when the Act no. 98/1963 Coll., on arbitration proceedings in international trade and on enforcement of arbitration awards entered into force, admitting arbitration proceedings only in international trade relations and only for legal entities, at that time foreign trade enterprises. Another principal change then occurred as at 1 January 2015, the effective date of the...
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Balancing Public Interests in Nature Protection
Vomáčka, Vojtěch ; Franková, Martina (referee)
Balancing Public Interests in Nature Protection Abstract This thesis focuses on the broader scope and the implications of balancing of public interests in nature protection. Czech Nature and Landscape Protection Act (Act No. 114/1992 Coll.) often requires the existence of an overriding public interest in order to allow interference with protected environmental interests. Furthermore, it implements requirements of the Birds Directive and the Habitats Directive, which introduced the concept of IROPI in protection of habitats and particular derogatory regimes from the protection of wild birds and endangered species. The traditional Czech nature conservation system has not been consumed or displaced by the requirements of EU rules. Both systems employ a slightly different approach to territorial protection, but the derogations in general rely on the same set of conditions including the concept of public interest, which needs to be interpreted in each individual case. The core of the thesis lies in the analysis of the case law of the Czech courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union, in particular with an emphasis on common requirements for the identification and balancing of public interests in protection of nature. The author suggests that balancing of nature protection and other public interests...
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Liability for damage caused by a defective product - comparison of Czech and British legal regulation with a focus on British case law
Černá, Tereza ; Frinta, Ondřej (advisor) ; Thöndel, Alexandr (referee)
This thesis deals with the topic of liability for damage caused by a defect in a product, i.e. liability of a producer (but also of another entity, such as the supplier or importer) for damage caused by the defective product to the health or property of the user (consumer) or other third persons. The primary area of this issue that the thesis has examined is the legal regulation in the UK (liability for damage caused by a defect in a product is in the UK usually expressed as "Product liability"). The main reason why I have chosen to describe the British legal regulation is my study experience in the UK at Northumbria University, where I studied within the program Erasmus+. In the UK, I had the opportunity to find all the resources, experience and incentives necessary in order to analyze the topic of Product liability and therefore, to write this thesis. The aim of this thesis is not only the description of the British Product liability, but also its comparison with the Czech regulation. This thesis then draws a clear conclusion that Product liability in the UK is as compared to the Czech Republic an institute much more frequently used and British regulation is compared to the Czech one more sophisticated and detailed. On the other hand, for the British consumers the British regulation may be, due...
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Contentious issues of necessary defence in judicial practise
Zoubková, Tereza ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
Contentious issues of necessary defence in judicial practise The subject of this thesis is necessary defence in Czech criminal law. Necessary defence is defined as an action which is usually considered illegal but because it is made in defence against an imminent or persistent attack on values protected by criminal law, it is not considered a crime. The law also states that the intensity of this defence cannot be clearly and obviously disproportionate to the form of the attack. This thesis focuses primarily on contentious issues that courts often deal with when they interpret and apply necessary defence in real cases. Before focusing on contentious issues this thesis first describes the basics of necessary defence. Since necessary defence is one of the circumstances excluding liability in Czech criminal law, this thesis first briefly describes these circumstances. In the next section the thesis focuses on the conditions and limits of necessary defence as they are defined in criminal law. Necessary defence is comprised of an attack and a corresponding defensive action. This section first focuses on the obligatory attributes of the attack and then on the conditions of the defence. Next this section describes the consequences of violating the limits of necessary defence and then it focuses on putative...
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Standing of the Court of Justice of the EU in the Area of the Police and Judicial Cooperation in Criminal Matters
Shepard, Lucia ; Zemánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Král, Richard (referee) ; Fenyk, Jaroslav (referee)
5 Abstract This dissertation examines the standing of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the area of police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, which was formally included under the umbrella of the European Union as a result of the Maastricht Treaty in the early nineties. Yet this area was excluded from the Community framework, which had a significant impact on the jurisdiction and competencies of the Court of Justice. Despite limitations arising from the construct of the third pillar, the Court of Justice took an opportunity through case law to overcome some of these limitations. The most recent milestone in the development of this area is the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty which removed the so-called pillar structure and further limitations disappeared with the end of the transitional period. Further, existing case law of the Court of Justice in this area has been closely linked to the framework decision on the European arrest warrant, which is based upon the principle of mutual recognition and mutual trust between the EU Member States, and thus became an important part of the case law of the Court of Justice. Given the scope of this framework decision, the Court of Justice has also been frequently dealing with the issue of fundamental rights, the protection of which plays an...
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The right to a favorable environment in case-law of the Czech courts
Novák, Jiří ; Sobotka, Michal (advisor) ; Derlich, Stanislav (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the right to a favorable environment in case-law of the Czech courts. The main aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview of its progression in the case-law on the right to a favorable environment for legal entities, especially societies (environmental non-governmental organizations). At first it follows up definition of key concepts and sources of law related to the right to a favorable environment. The thesis discusses the environmental protection processes (such as the land-use planning, the environmental impact assessment procedure and integrated permitting), the Aarhus Convention, legal protection and locus standi as the most important topics. The main part of the thesis analyzes the relevant case law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic. The conclusion of the thesis is a summary and evaluation of its progression in the case-law on the right to a favorable environment for legal entities.
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Case Law of the Constitutional Court Relating to Taxation
Křivánek, Michal ; Boháč, Radim (advisor) ; Vybíral, Roman (referee)
The thesis deals with the decision-making practices of the Czech Constitutional Court in matters of taxation. The first chapter serves as an introduction to the topic of taxes and their different types, pays attention to the distinction between taxes, fees and other similar payments, and outlines the constitutional foundations on which taxes in broader sense may be imposed. The following section discusses the role of the Constitutional Court, mentions the types of court proceedings related to the field of taxation, and distinguishes between the court review of questions with constitutional law relevance, which the Constitutional Court examines, and of matters of ordinary law without such relevance, which are left to the general courts. The importance of the decision-making agenda of the Constitutional Court and the binding nature of its decisions for different groups of subjects and in different type situations is outlined. The third section then proceeds to analyze the important constitutional principles that are common for the field of tax law, namely the prohibition of genuine ex post facto legislation, and conversely the general permissibility of perceived retroaction, the principle of imposing taxes solely on the basis of law, and the use of the in dubio mitius principle, which is a...
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Preliminary hearing of the indicment in the case law
Kočová, Tereza ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Gřivna, Tomáš (referee)
The thesis includes the analysis of the preliminary hearing of the indictment institute as an optional part of criminal proceedings, which follows after bringing an indictment to court. The thesis is focused on summary of theoretical findings, which draws mainly from the commentary literature, but a key focus of the thesis is the analysis of relevant judicial decisions that relate to the institute investigated. The thesis works in particular with the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic and High Courts, to a lesser extent with decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and several regional courts are used. The text is (except introduction and conclusion) divided into eight parts. The first part contains an explanation of the concept of preliminary hearing of the indictment. Next part of the thesis is focused on the historical development of the preliminary hearing of the indictment, from 1850 to the present. This part also summarizes the most important amendments of the currently effective Criminal Procedure Code. Following parts are focused on explanation of purpose of preliminary hearing of the indictment and explanation of the difference between this and the obligatory review of indictment in accordance with § 181 par. 1 and 185 par. 1 of the Criminal Procedure...
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European trade mark in the case law of European courts
Cabák, David ; Zemánek, Jiří (advisor) ; Svobodová, Magdaléna (referee)
This thesis analyzes the contemporary case law of European courts regarding Community trade mark. The thesis is composed of five chapters. First chapter characterizes Community trade mark as a legal instrument of the law of the European Union. Second chapter analyzes relevant sources of law. Third chapter deals with institutions that are crucial mainly for the registration and protection of Community trade marks. Then the fourth chapter describes the registration process before the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market. First part of this chapter focuses on the formalities of an application of the Community trade mark filed at the Office. Second part is concerned with the right of priority. Third part looks at absolute grounds for refusal of an application. Fourth part refers to relative grounds for refusal. Finally, the fifth part describes the grounds for revocation of the rights of the Community trade mark. At last the fifth chapter examines the contemporary legal background of the system of protecting the rights of proprietors of Community trade marks. The results of this thesis shows that the current legislation and the case law of European courts contribute to the functioning of the common market and mainly to free movement of goods by reasonable determination of limits for...
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