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Expert in criminal proceedings with a focus on healthcare
Krbcová, Tereza ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Heranová, Simona (referee)
1 Expert in criminal proceedings with a focus on healthcare Abstract The thesis deals with the evaluation of the legal regulation of expert activities in criminal proceedings according to Act No. 254/2019 Coll., on Experts, Expert Offices and Expert Institutes and Act No. 141/1961 Coll., Criminal Procedure Code. It is divided into five chapters, which deal with the history of expert activities, expert, expert opinion, expert evidence, and opinions from the field of healthcare. The first chapter maps the history of expert activities on a global scale and the gradual development of expert activities in our country. The second chapter is devoted to the expert, his status, conditions of practice and his rights and duties. Among the most important rights of an expert is the right to expert fees, which is thoroughly discussed in the thesis. The third chapter deals with the expert opinion, its differences from a professional statement, its form and requirements. A lot of emphasis is placed on the requirements of the expert opinion, and their changes, due to the entry into effect of the new legislation. The third chapter also includes the electronic register of expert opinions, which was created for the purpose of digitisation of public administration and in accordance with enabling the submission of expert...
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The institute of allowable risk with focus on the area of health care
Vojtěchová, Eliška ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Richter, Martin (referee)
The institute of allowable risk with focus on the area of health care Abstract The topic of this thesis is the institute of allowable risk in health care, i.e. one of the expressly stated circumstances excluding unlawfullness in the Czech Criminal Code. At first, this thesis deals in general with the definition of unlawfullness, with expressly stated circumstances excluding unlawfullness in the Criminal Code in its general and special part and subsequently with circumstances excluding unlawfullness not expressly stated. In the next part, this thesis contains the international and constitutional law basis for the right for life and health, untouchability of a person and scientific research liberty. Third main part of this thesis is devoted to a detailed study of allowable risk in the area of health care. At first, attention is given to positive description of allowable risk, i.e. benefit for the society, definition of risk, exercise in the course of employment or post, subsidiarity of risky conduct and term achieved state of knowledge - term and advancement de lege artis. After positive characteristics, description of negative characteristics of allowable risk follows, i.e. of free and informed consent and its absence, proportionality principle, contradiction with a legal regulation, public interest,...
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The procedure of health care provider non lege artis with respect to social security
Mikudová, Tereza ; Morávek, Jakub (advisor) ; Lang, Roman (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the procedure non lege artis and its consequences. The aim of the thesis is to analyze the possible impacts of the procedure non lege artis in particular in the field of social security law. For better orientation, the thesis is divided into two parts, with each part being further divided by two chapters, i.e. the thesis contains a total of four chapters. The first part of the thesis deals with the concept of lege artis And the consequences of the procedure non lege artis in the field of social security law, the second part deals with related issues, in particular it focuses on the legal aspects of the relationship between the patient and the provider of health services and the possible consequences of such a procedure in other legal levels. As a general introduction to the issue and to understand other contexts, the first chapter defines the term lege artis for it is the basic concept from which the further content of the work is derived. In this context, the author also reflects on the relationship lege artis and the Article 31 of the Charter of fundamental rights and freedoms of the Czech Republic. In the second chapter, the author points out the possible consequences of violating the procedure lege artis in the field of social security law, the consequences of...
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Circumstances of justification and medical practise
Strnad, Jan ; Sovová, Olga (advisor) ; Císařová, Dagmar (referee)
Responsibility of the doctor in criminal law and the circumstances under which it is possible to carry out medical procedures without the threat of legal punishment is a topic that has been, is and will be always up to date. It is a complex set of problems, which includes aspects of moral, medical and legal. In my thesis I focused on relationship between doctor's proffession and legal aspects of his work according to criminal law. Its goal is to describe the issue of the practice of medicine and circumstances of justification in terms of legislation in the Czech Republic. The thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter provides an introduction to the problem and the reasons that led me to choose this topic work. The second chapter is devoted to criminal liability and is divided into two parts. The first contains the general conditions that are necessary for criminal liability of doctors. The second part contains the typical and most common possible crimes that may physician in the exercise of their profession commit. The third and most extensive chapter has focused on description of the circumstances of justification. The chapter is divided into four parts. Firstly it deals with self-defense and legitimate use of weapons that are not too common in the medical environment. Then I focus on...
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Patient's damage
Chocholoušová, Tereza ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee)
Patient's damage The goal of this presented diploma thesis is to discuss the problem of patient harm due to health care. To achieve the stated goal, the thesis is divided into five main chapters, in which the first chapter discusses the relationship between the patient. The first chapter also introduces the rights and obligations of both the patient and the physician. This chapter also deals with the issue of informed consent. The second chapter focuses on the issue of legal liability, addressing both civil liability in general and its individual types, as well as criminal liability. The next chapter is about the procedure lege artis and the related health ethics concept. Part of this chapter is also the issue of expert opinions. The fourth chapter is crucial for the thesis, because it deals with the patient's own damage. This chapter deals not only with undesirable events that could result in patient harm, but also about the subsequent compensation of the patient in the form of painful and compensation for the burden of social application. Within the subchapter on patient harm in practice are mentioned the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic issued in specific cases of patients' injuries. And for completeness, one European Court of Human Rights decision. The last chapter mentions...
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Criminal liability in healthcare with focus on an analysis of Czech and Slovak court rulings
Kodýmová, Kateřina ; Sovová, Olga (advisor) ; Císařová, Dagmar (referee)
1 Criminal liability in healthcare with focus on an analysis of Czech and Slovak court rulings Abstract This master's thesis deals with the issue of criminal liability of healthcare workers. The aim of this thesis is to create a comprehensive overview of the Czech legislation of the relevant part of criminal law and individual institutes of medical law and to present related case law. Slovak legislation is used for comparison. The thesis consists of six parts, the first chapter is focused on the legal regulation of medical law and its international and national sources. It also deals with types of legal liability of healthcare professionals such as civil, labour, administrative and disciplinary liability. The second and one of the most extensive chapters approaches criminal liability and its necessary conditions. It describes the current concept of crime in more detail as well as the analysis of the necessity of the principle of subsidiarity of criminal repression. It also includes legal regulation of criminal liability of legal entities. The third chapter is dedicated to a cardinal concept - lex artis as an appropriate level of expertise, which contains a number of obligations that every healthcare worker must comply with. The process of proving criminal liability of medical workers in criminal proceedings...
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Criminal liability of physician for a non lege artis medical procedure
Zmeková, Veronika ; Sovová, Olga (advisor) ; Císařová, Dagmar (referee)
Criminal liability of physician for a non lege artis medical procedure Abstract This diploma thesis is focused on the issue of the criminal liability of physician for a non lege artis medical procedure. The main objective of submitted thesis is to define all the requirements and elements of criminal liability of the physician, therefore, to find an answer to under what conditions and in what situations the physician will be criminally responsible, and in what situation he will not be criminally responsible. Another objective of the thesis is to provide a definition of what can be considered as a lege artis procedure, what will be considered as a non lege artis procedure, who will assess such a procedure and what will be the consequences for the assessment of the criminal liability of a physician. In this thesis it was used mostly the method of description, analysis, deduction and a partial comparison. Thesis is divided into four main chapters, which are further divided into relevant subchapters. The first chapter is focused on the definition of all prerequisites for the criminal liability of a physician and also deals with the question of possible criminal liability of a legal person who is authorized to provide health services. The second chapter defines individual circumstances excluding illegality. The...
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Tolerable risk
Nováková, Denisa ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
Tolerable risk Abstract The thesis deals with the topic of tolerable risk. Tolerable risk is a type of criminal defense that has first appeared in the Penal Code, Act No. 40/2009 Coll. Today, after almost ten years since the it came into effect, is the time to summarize the practical use of this institute. Chapter One outlines the types of criminal defenses and looks at the position that tolerable risk takes among them. Chapter Two offers a historical viewon the development of tolerable risk as an institute; first showing how it had been inferred from doctrine and then how the final version of tolerable risk, implemented in the Penal Code, was found. Chapter Three analyses the constructional features of tolerable risk; that means the conditions to be met in order to apply this criminal defense. Chapter Four compares tolerable risk with other criminal defenses, both legally defined (self-defense, necessity, consent, legitimate use of the weapon) and also not legally defined (fulfillment of obligation, exercise of entitlement, performance of a profession). Chapters five, six and sevendeal with the most common areas in which tolerable risk is employed. These areas are healthcare (Chapter Five), economy (Chapter Six) and sport (Chapter Seven).These three chapters focus on those components of tolerable risk that...
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Patient's damage
Chocholoušová, Tereza ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee)
Patient's damage The goal of this presented diploma thesis is to discuss the problem of patient harm due to health care. To achieve the stated goal, the thesis is divided into five main chapters, in which the first chapter discusses the relationship between the patient. The first chapter also introduces the rights and obligations of both the patient and the physician. This chapter also deals with the issue of informed consent. The second chapter focuses on the issue of legal liability, addressing both civil liability in general and its individual types, as well as criminal liability. The next chapter is about the procedure lege artis and the related health ethics concept. Part of this chapter is also the issue of expert opinions. The fourth chapter is crucial for the thesis, because it deals with the patient's own damage. This chapter deals not only with undesirable events that could result in patient harm, but also about the subsequent compensation of the patient in the form of painful and compensation for the burden of social application. Within the subchapter on patient harm in practice are mentioned the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic issued in specific cases of patients' injuries. And for completeness, one European Court of Human Rights decision. The last chapter mentions...
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Protection of personality in healthcare
Šrámková, Denisa ; Salač, Josef (advisor) ; Šustek, Petr (referee)
The subject of this thesis is "Protection of personality in health care" which is an important and especially current topic. After the recodifications of relevant legislation - particularly the recent Civil Code (which is built on the natural law concept) - is more focused on the protection of personality and it generally changed perception of harm to personal rights. It is newly called "compensation for personal harm to the natural rights of person" and claims for compensation for damages and recompense of non-pecuniary damages is tied to a single court proceedings. The thesis is divided into four parts. The first part introduces the basic concepts related to personal rights and to certain medical terminology including explanation of the term "lege artis". The second part presents the relevant legislation, both national and international. The third and largest section is devoted to the protection of patient's personality which is defined by the individual rights of patient in health care. It refers to the patient's right to be treated "lege artis" during receiving of health services, patients' right to be informed and provide related informed consent (on which the thesis is particularly focused), medical confidentiality of health workers and issues related to handling the patient's medical...
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