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Criminal Corporate Liability
Bohuslav, Lukáš ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Záhora, Jozef (referee) ; Sváček, Jan (referee)
The Criminal Corporate Liability The definition of legal person is not outlined in criminal law, but can be found in Section 18, Subsection 2 of the Civil Code. Corporate criminal liability is then a concept that has been newly introduced to the Czech statutory criminal law, what has caused a certain intrusion of the system of basic principles of criminal law, mainly the principle of individual criminal responsibility. The term "imputability" appears, which means that a conduct of agents or other persons designated in the Act on Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and Proceedings Against Them (further as "the Act") can be imputed to a legal person, if the physical person is culpable for the conduct and the conduct causes imputability of the criminal offence to the legal person. Intensive discussions on necessity and suitability of implementation of the concept of corporate criminal liability into the Czech legal system had preceded the adoption of the Act in 2011. Such discussion can now be considered as overcome, as it is obvious that the Czech Republic has opted for the direction towards the "true" corporate criminal liability. Arguments for and against the adoption of the Act can nevertheless help to better understand the concept itself, as well as the context in which it has been introduced. It...
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Criminal liability of corporations in selected countries of the European union
Slobodník, Martin ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Pelc, Vladimír (referee)
The author of the propounded thesis is dealing with a controversial issue of criminal liability of legal entities in various countries of Central Europe, i.e. the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of Austria, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Poland and attention is dedicated to their comparison with each other or with the relevant legal provisions of the Czech Republic. The criminal liability of legal persons is not perceived by the experts of criminal law as mere complement of the criminal liability of individuals, but as an equal branch of penal responsibility side by side with the liability of natural persons. For this reason, the author deems its closer examination to be beneficial. This work refers to legislative activities in the Czech Republic, but also in the Slovak Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany, which clearly show that the legislation of these countries is constantly evolving and that their legislators are still looking for the optimal embedding of effective sanctioning of legal entities, including the related penal institutes. In the introduction, the author points out the common international and European obligations of particular researched countries and also provides evaluation of the implementation of commitments by member states to the European Union or to...
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Criminal Corporate Liability
Bohuslav, Lukáš ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Záhora, Jozef (referee) ; Sváček, Jan (referee)
The Criminal Corporate Liability The definition of legal person is not outlined in criminal law, but can be found in Section 18, Subsection 2 of the Civil Code. Corporate criminal liability is then a concept that has been newly introduced to the Czech statutory criminal law, what has caused a certain intrusion of the system of basic principles of criminal law, mainly the principle of individual criminal responsibility. The term "imputability" appears, which means that a conduct of agents or other persons designated in the Act on Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and Proceedings Against Them (further as "the Act") can be imputed to a legal person, if the physical person is culpable for the conduct and the conduct causes imputability of the criminal offence to the legal person. Intensive discussions on necessity and suitability of implementation of the concept of corporate criminal liability into the Czech legal system had preceded the adoption of the Act in 2011. Such discussion can now be considered as overcome, as it is obvious that the Czech Republic has opted for the direction towards the "true" corporate criminal liability. Arguments for and against the adoption of the Act can nevertheless help to better understand the concept itself, as well as the context in which it has been introduced. It...
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