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Expert evidence
Šváb, Martin ; Richter, Martin (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
Expert evidence Abstract This thesis deals with the use of expert opinion as evidence in criminal proceedings, the conditions for its admissibility and possible defects of such expert opinions. Expert opinions play a significant role in criminal proceedings and are often irreplaceable evidence in the process of proof. Despite their irreplaceability, however, they do not carry any greater weight or probative force among other evidence and must therefore, like other evidence, be assessed in accordance with the principle of the free evaluation of evidence. The thesis deals with the basic institutes of the law of evidence, expert activities, the status and conditions of activities of individual subjects of expert activities and expert opinions, the process of their preparation and their taking. It describes the process of preparation and the individual parts of an expert opinion according to the new legal regulation implemented by Act No. 254/2019 Coll., on Experts, Expert Offices and Expert Institutes (Act on Experts) and the related implementing decrees. The thesis describes the basic requirements that an expert opinion must meet in order to be admissible evidence in criminal proceedings, and at the same time describes what defects in expert opinions are recognized by theory and practice using case law...
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