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Extraordinary remedies in criminal proceedings
Fejklová, Lucie ; Gřivna, Tomáš (advisor) ; Tlapák Navrátilová, Jana (referee)
Remedies in criminal proceedings are designed in particular to remedy and rectify errors and mistakes occurring in the course of the proceeding, and as such serve for the review and rectification of both legal and factual defects. Remedies may be ordinary or extraordinary. Ordinary remedies include appeal, complaint and protest, while extraordinary remedies include extraordinary appeal, complaint for breach of law and renewal of proceeding. The principal prerequisite for the stability of final and enforceable decisions in criminal proceedings is their unchangeability. It is impossible to rule out a serious error, and such a defect in the final and enforceable decision of a law enforcement or judicial body may occur as a result that insisting on its binding and unchangeable nature would disrupt fair and correct decision-making. The finality and enforceability of a decision ought to be pierced in exceptional cases only, and then only when it is necessary and when the stability of the decision cannot be insisted on. Extraordinary appeal was introduced into the Czech legal order by the 2001 amendment to the Criminal Code. This extraordinary legal remedy serves to remedy enumerated defects in the most important types of court decisions, or to review life sentences. Extraordinary appeal can only be used...

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