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Contentious issues of necessary defence in judicial practise
Králová, Jana ; Vokoun, Rudolf (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee)
Contentious issues of necessary defence in judicial practice Abstract This thesis discusses necessary defence and its contentious issues which appear in judicial practice of Czech courts. It is one of the conditions precluding illegality stated in the section 29 of the Penal Code. Which means that a criminal offence is not committed if legal requirements for conduct in necessary defence are fulfilled. These requirements are that the defence should avert an impending or progressing attack to an interest protected by the Penal Code as well as not to be obviously grossly disproportionate to a manner of an attack. Necessary defence is an important institute of criminal law because it may affect everyone, and for this reason it has often appeared in the media and some cases even provokes social discussion on its legal regulation. The goal of this thesis is to analyse contentious issues appearing in court decisions such as possibility and manner of usage of a weapon or automatic defensive device, evaluation of motive to an act in necessary defence, comparison of protected interests, for example protection of life and health against protection of property or domestic freedom, consideration of an existence and a term of attack and related apparent necessary defence, the difference between mutual assault and...

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