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Voting Rights of People with Intellectual Disabilities
Havelková, Zuzana ; Němec, Zbyněk (advisor) ; Hájková, Vanda (referee)
This diploma thesis focuses on the exercising of voting rights by people with intellectual disabilities. The thesis aims to present the topic of voting rights of people with intellectual disabilities within the domestic and international legislative framework and to explore the perception of elections and voting rights from the perspective of people with intellectual disabilities by applying qualitative research. The theoretical part describes elections, voting rights, specific features of people with intellectual disabilities, and availability of the support to vote. The essential part of the diploma thesis also contains a legislative overview, which anchors the voting rights of people with disabilities. The practical part of the thesis deals with the topic of perception of elections and voting rights from the perspective of people with intellectual disabilities. The partial aims of the research are to find out: how do the people with disabilities evaluate the importance of elections; which factors influence their political choice; which knowledge about the topic of limiting the exercise of the voting right through limiting legal capacity do people with intellectual disabilities have; how do people with intellectual disabilities evaluate the availability of information and support to vote. The...
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Legal capacity and related legal proceedings
Chalupská, Lenka ; Macková, Alena (advisor) ; Frintová, Dita (referee)
The aim of this thesis named "Legal capacity and related legal proceedings" is to introduce legal capacity and related legal proceedings with the focus on the procedural legislation. Legal capacity is a natural component of each natural person and it is not allowed to be removed. Legal capacity is acquired at birth and is retained until death. Sometime, due to protection of rights of a person, legal capacity might be restricted. This thesis is divided up into ten parts. The largerst part is focused on legal proceeding which lead to restriction of a person's legal capacity, ie. restriction of an aspect of personal status. Nevertheless, the thesis introduces also legal proceeding leading to prolongation of time of legal capacity restrictions and proceeding concerning legal capacity of a child. The custody of persons limited in legal capacity and related legal proceeding are introduced in the thesis as well. This proceeding and proceeding of legal capacity are conjoined to each other, which is the reason why this subject may not be omitted. This part describes the process of choosing the right person as a curator. The author also shows that several misunderstandings and misinterpretations occured after Civil Code came into force on the 1st of January 2014. The author also presents her considerations...
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