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Mass actions in Czech civil procedure
Novotný, Vojtěch ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Winterová, Alena (referee)
Group actions in Czech procedural law Summary The thesis deals with an issue of group actions, which is a legal instrument of collective protection of private rights in civil proceedings. The aim of this thesis is to analyze this procedural institute, to point out shortcomings of current legislation and to propose it's acceptable solution. The thesis is divided into three relatively independent sections. The first section focuses on theoretical basis (including a brief outline of the historical development) and defines basic terminology used in the thesis. Then it describes the most general division of the collective enforcement mechanisms into a group action and a representative action. The second section concentrates on legislative schemes of group actions in certain foreign jurisdictions. Specifically, it deals with a legal conception of class action in the legal system of the USA, where it is applied as a kind of a opt-out group proceedings (group members, who does not agree with adjudication of their claims, may opt-out), then it deals with opt-in group proceedings in Sweden (group members can be required to enter the suit individually) and finally it describes a German model proceedings in capital market disputes, which represents a compromise between individual and collective proceedings. The third...
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Mass actions in Czech civil procedure
Novotný, Vojtěch ; Smolík, Petr (advisor) ; Winterová, Alena (referee)
Group actions in Czech procedural law Summary The thesis deals with an issue of group actions, which is a legal instrument of collective protection of private rights in civil proceedings. The aim of this thesis is to analyze this procedural institute, to point out shortcomings of current legislation and to propose it's acceptable solution. The thesis is divided into three relatively independent sections. The first section focuses on theoretical basis (including a brief outline of the historical development) and defines basic terminology used in the thesis. Then it describes the most general division of the collective enforcement mechanisms into a group action and a representative action. The second section concentrates on legislative schemes of group actions in certain foreign jurisdictions. Specifically, it deals with a legal conception of class action in the legal system of the USA, where it is applied as a kind of a opt-out group proceedings (group members, who does not agree with adjudication of their claims, may opt-out), then it deals with opt-in group proceedings in Sweden (group members can be required to enter the suit individually) and finally it describes a German model proceedings in capital market disputes, which represents a compromise between individual and collective proceedings. The third...
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