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Freedom of Speech in the Czech Media Enviroment - Case Studies
Gantner, Filip ; Benda, Josef (advisor) ; Křeček, Jan (referee)
The thesis brings complex description of the freedom of speech in the Czech media environment, while answering the research question of what are the limits of the freedom of speech of the media and in the media when the freedom of speech collides with the protection of the personality rights. The thesis is an interdisciplinary study combining media and legal studies. It emphasizes the role of media in the process of realization of the freedom of speech and it also concentrates on the role of case-law of the courts, which is applying the provisions on the freedom of speech. Special attention was paid to the conflict between the freedom of speech and the protection of the personality rights. First, the thesis defines particular elements (principles) of the freedom of speech on the basis of the provisions of the Czech acts, international treaties and previous case-law of the European Court for Human Rights. Then it examines how such principles have been reflected in case-law of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic. It also deals with general description of the protection of the personality rights. Based on the above-mentioned analysis, the thesis designs ten case studies focused on application of the main principles presented in the previous chapters of the thesis to hypothetic circumstances linked...
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Protection of Personality Rights inrelation to media
Říha, Martin ; Švestka, Jiří (advisor) ; Salač, Josef (referee)
The thesis addresses primarily the conflict between the protection of personality and another constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right - the freedom of expression. These rights, that happen to be often in a conflict, are rights of an equal legal protection, one does not have a priority over the other one and so it is a challenge for the courts to decide which one to prefer in particular cases while taking the specific circumstances of the each case into account. The thesis aims to examine this conflict in detail and to analyse it. The first chapter focuses on general questions related to personality rights, addresses the term "personality", the historic development of the personality rights regulation within the area of the Czech Republic and its presence in the current legal system with the accent to the recodification of the civil law, which has taken place hand in hand with the act no. 89/2012 Coll., Civil code, entering into force, while an assessment of the changes that the new regulation of the civil law has brought is one of the partial aims of the thesis. In the second chapter is discussed the unlawful interference with the personality rights that constitutes a private law tort. In the same time this chapter addresses the circumstances excluding the unlawfulness and deals with the...
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