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Defense of a legal entity in criminal proceedings
Svoboda, Edvin ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Šelleng, Dalibor (referee)
Title of dissertation: Defense of a legal person in criminal proceedings Key words: defense of a legal entity, criminal proceedings, criminal liability of legal persons Abstract The topic of the rigorous thesis is the Defense of a legal entity in criminal proceedings. The first chapter deals with the basic concepts and concepts that the rigorous work deals with in it content, specifically it deals mainly with the concept and concept of a legal entity and it concept and defining features, then briefly outlines the history of legal entities. The second chapter of the submitted rigorous thesis is devoted to Act No. 418/2011 Coll., On the criminal liability of legal persons and proceedings against them. This law is first briefly characterized, then this chapter deals with topics directly related to this law, namely the analysis of key provisions of this law, the amendments made and their consequences for legal practice, reasons for punishing legal entities, the extent of criminalization of legal entities and finally and what vicissitudes accompanied the adoption of this law and what controversies surrounding it were discussed within the legal community. The last subchapter of the second chapter compares the state of this issue in the Czech Republic with other selected countries of the European Union. The third...
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Sanctioning of legal persons
Bartoš, Jan ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Vokoun, Rudolf (referee)
1 Sanctioning of legal persons Abstract Sanctioning of legal person is a topic that is more than relevant. Although the phenomena of criminal liability of legal person is not unknown to the continental Europe, rapid development can be seen in the second half of 20th century and in the beginning of the 21st century where most of European countries enacted laws regarding criminal liability of legal persons. The Czech Republic enacted the Act No. 418/2011 Coll. on the criminal liability of legal persons (hereinafter "ZTOPO"). This diploma thesis is divided into six parts. The first part is about criminal liability of legal persons in general. It provides a quick historical evaluation and analysis of the term criminal liability of legal persons itself, then it is focused on the ZTOPO. The second part is focused on compliance program with regard to its function, preferable content and relevant case law. The third and fourth part is the core of this diploma thesis. The third part solely focuses on sanctioning of legal entities under the ZTOPO. It separately describes every sanction that could be imposed under the law and focuses on the deficits of the legislation. The fourth part describes the criminal liability of legal persons in France, Germany and Austria and thus provides international comparison with the...
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Criminal Liability of Legal Persons
Marešová, Adéla ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
Criminal liability of legal persons Abstract The author of the thesis deals with the issue of criminal liability of legal persons, from the position of her advocate. The purpose of the study is to stress the need to introduce this institute into the legal systems of democratic states, but at the same time to deal with the problems brought by its Czech substantive law. In the first part of the thesis the author discusses the legal aspect of criminal liability of legal persons, summarizes opinions for and against the introduction of criminal liability of legal persons, and examines the criminological aspects of corporate crime. The second part of the thesis focuses on the differences, advantages and disadvantages of three basic models of criminal liability of legal persons - true, false and administrative. The author commends that the Czech Republic has proceeded to introduce true criminal liability of legal persons. The third part explains the term legal person itself. In the pivotal fourth part of the thesis, the author deals critically with the individual substantive provisions of the Czech law implementing the criminal liability of legal persons and proposes a solution de lege ferenda. The last part evaluates the whole issue using statistical data on the number of convicted legal persons in the Czech...
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Criminal Liability of Legal Persons
Hainz, Filip ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Heranová, Simona (referee)
Title of the Diploma Thesis: Criminal Liability of Legal Persons Abstract: Through this diploma thesis, the author presents a comprehensive summary of the phenomenon of criminal liability of legal persons, to the individual contexts of which presents his considerations. He discusses this phenomenon from many points of view, which correspond to the structure of his diploma thesis, as it forms its individual parts. These aspects are the legal theoretical background of this issue; the historical development of the phenomenon, including common law and civil law culture; legislative developments in the Czech Republic; positivist analysis of the applicable substantive legislation contained in Act No. 418/2011 Coll., On Criminal Liability of Legal Entities and Proceedings against them; a comparative analysis of the substantive legislation of the Czech and Slovak Republic and the subsequent summarization of the application of this new form of liability in the practice of the Czech courts. The stated goal of this diploma thesis is a comprehensive acquaintance with relevant aspects of this phenomenon, whereas focus of this diploma thesis is, in addition to the analysis of the valid substantive legislation of the Czech Republic in this area, especially on the above-mentioned comparative analysis of this legislation...
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Selected issues of the Criminal Liability of Legal Entities in the Czech Republic
Kalousová, Simona ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Tejnská, Katarína (referee)
The aim of the present thesis was to determine the problems of the current legislation of the criminal liability of legal persons and to consider whether it is possible to adopt the legislation as it is applied in England and Wales and use it into the legal order of the Czech Republic in compliance with the development of Czech legislation and England and Wales. Due to the extensiveness of the issue, only certain problematic parts of the legal order of the criminal liability of legal persons in the Czech Republic were selected. Attention was focused on the questionable parts selected only from the substantive part of the law. The approach to criminal liability of legal persons is diverse in the Anglo-American system. Variation can be seen at the level of individual states belonging to the system and at the federal and state levels. The first part of the thesis summarizes the development of the legal liability of legal persons in England and Wales, which were selected as the representatives of the Anglo-American system of legal culture. These countries were chosen because of the author's personal experience, which was gained during studies abroad, specifically in the United Kingdom. The first selected problem is the personal scope of the law, which is problematic due to the large range of persons to...
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Sanctioning of legal persons
Kratochvílová, Kateřina ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Vokoun, Rudolf (referee)
Sanctioning of legal persons Abstract This thesis focuses on criminal responsibility of legal persons, with an emphasis on sanctioning. The thesis examines the Act No. 418/2011 Coll., On Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and the Proceedings against them (hereinafter as "the Act"). Further it evaluates how is the Act applied by the courts and what are the problems resulting from the application of the Act, with focus on sanctioning. The thesis further proposes ideas for improvements, including changes in legislation de lege ferenda. The diploma thesis consists of three parts. In the first part the author addresses the basic concepts of criminal responsibility of legal persons, its roots in foreign and international law, and the development of the concept in the Czech Republic. This part further describes the basic institutes of corporate criminal liability, including imputability of criminal act to the legal person, followed by explanation of the concept of exculpation and related case law. Part Two focuses on sanctioning of legal persons from the theoretical perspective. It addresses the basic institutes of sanctioning of legal persons, the purpose and the principles of sanctioning, followed by the analysis of each sanction included in the Czech Act on Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and the...
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Selected issues of criminal liability of legal entities
Slobodník, Martin ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (referee) ; Fryšták, Marek (referee)
Název disertační práce v anglickém jazyce, abstrakt v anglickém jazyce a 3 klíčová slova v anglickém jazyce Název disertační práce v anglickém jazyce: Selected issues of criminal liability of legal entities Abstrakt v anglickém jazyce: The author of the propounded thesis is dealing with a controversial issue of criminal sanctioning of legal entities in selected countries of the European Union. With the presented topic of criminal liability of legal entities is not only engaged the specialized public in the Czech Republic, but it is also a controversial theme among other European states. The topic remains current, as is witnessed not only by the frequent expert conferences, but also by the legislative activity in the Czech Republic, neighbouring countries and other parts of Europe. It is clear that individual legislators are still seeking the optimal embedding of effective sanctions against legal entities, including related penal institutes. The second chapter of this thesis is devoted to valid and effective international and transnational documents, which are closer examined. Due to the fact that each of the sources contains just general requirements, a number of states are positively assessed when implementing the transnational and international commitments, because these states, except few of them,...
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Sanctioning of legal person
Hron, David ; Bohuslav, Lukáš (advisor) ; Tejnská, Katarína (referee)
1 Abstract This diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the issue of sanctioning of legal persons as well as with selected aspects of criminal liability of legal persons. The main reason why I chose this topic is my deep interest in analyzing the discussed issues together with the evaluation of the current state of the Act No. 418/2011 Coll., On Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and the Proceedings against them, and on the basis of this evaluation to submit proposals for improvement. At the beginning of this work, the reader will find a presentation of the basic structure, along with an outline of the main goals of the thesis, and then it will be divided into five basic chapters. The first chapter defines the basic concepts of criminal liability of legal persons related to their sanctioning. There is a theoretical definition of a legal person due to the absence of a definition of this term in czech criminal law. After defining the theoretical basis of criminal liability of legal persons, the development of this institute is outlined, together with the question of sanctioning the legal persons that are primarily involved in this work. The second chapter focuses on the development of criminal liability of legal persons. Due to the fact that origin of the criminal liability of legal persons is in the...
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Criminal liability of legal persons in relation to public procurement
Suchomelová, Hana ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
7 Abstract Criminal liability of legal persons in the context of public procurements The presented thesis deals with criminal liability of legal persons who take part in procedure of public procurement. Thesis operates with Act No. 134/2016 Coll., Public Procurement Procedure Act (hereinafter also referred to as "PPP") taking in regard the former legislation Act No. 137/2006 Coll., Public Procurement Act. In context of future changes, it is dealt with Act No. 418/2011 Coll., Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and Proceedings against Them (hereinafter also as "TOPO"), whereas attention is focused on amendment of TOPO, which is the Act No. 183/2016 Sb., effective from 1st December of 2016. The Introductory chapter deals with public procurements and offers a brief insight into this subject matter. It defines the term of Public Procurement, specifies the term of contracting authority and gives a general overview of the procedure along with applicable principles. By the end the chapter summarizes some of the most significant changes brought by the new Act on PPP. The second chapter looks into some of the aspects of criminal liability of legal persons related to public procurements, which involves specific sanctions for legal persons from participation in public procurement procedure or sanction of...
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Criminal Liability of Legal Persons
Marešová, Adéla ; Jelínek, Jiří (advisor) ; Vanduchová, Marie (referee)
Criminal liability of legal persons Abstract The author of the thesis deals with the issue of criminal liability of legal persons, from the position of her advocate. The purpose of the study is to stress the need to introduce this institute into the legal systems of democratic states, but at the same time to deal with the problems brought by its Czech substantive law. In the first part of the thesis the author discusses the legal aspect of criminal liability of legal persons, summarizes opinions for and against the introduction of criminal liability of legal persons, and examines the criminological aspects of corporate crime. The second part of the thesis focuses on the differences, advantages and disadvantages of three basic models of criminal liability of legal persons - true, false and administrative. The author commends that the Czech Republic has proceeded to introduce true criminal liability of legal persons. The third part explains the term legal person itself. In the pivotal fourth part of the thesis, the author deals critically with the individual substantive provisions of the Czech law implementing the criminal liability of legal persons and proposes a solution de lege ferenda. The last part evaluates the whole issue using statistical data on the number of convicted legal persons in the Czech...
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