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Contentious issues of self-defence in Czech case law This thesis is focused on legal institute self-defence (in Czech law is used term necessity defence) in Czech case law. It deals with theoretical problems and contemporary legislation as well, but the most important part is (according to the name of this thesis) focused on judicial practice. The purpose of this thesis is to present some controversial issues of self-defence and analyze judical practice that deals with those issues. Nevertheless, at the end one issue that the Czech courts have not ruled on yet is also mentioned. This thesis is composed of five chapters. The first one presents the purpose of this thesis and introduces the necessity of judicial practice for controversial issues of self-defence. The second chapter introduces self-defence as a fundamental element of any democratic state. Subchapter 2.2 deals with some main principles of Czech criminal law and presents how they demonstrate themselves in self- defence. The next subchapter 2.3 focuses on benefits that self-defence brings to contemporary democratic society. The third chapter concerns with the current wording of self-defence in Criminal Code. The most important terminology is introduced. Subchapter 3.4 deals with mistake in circumstances excluding criminal lability, 3.5...

Controversial Issues Surrounding Necessary Defense in Judicial Practice The purposes of this essay are to point out some of the controversial issues surrounding the legal institute of self-defense in Czech law (Czech law uses the term "necessary defense") and to analyze judicial practices that deal with those controversial issues. Moreover, this essay will explore the institute of self-defense in a broader context. This essay is composed of six chapters, each of which dealing with different aspects of self- defense. Chapter 1 consists of an introduction that sets the aims and purposes of this essay, as well as introduces the institute of self-defense as a fundamental element of any democratic society. Chapter 2 deals with self-defense as a sociological phenomenon. The chapter is subdivided into three subchapters. Subchapter 2.1 focuses on the importance of self-defense in society. Subchapter 2.2 analyzes the problems associated with an insufficient usage of the institute of self-defense. Lastly, Subchapter 2.3 focuses on issues of legal consciousness in matters of self-defense. Chapter 3 briefly introduces the historical development of self-defense. It is subdivided into two parts. Subchapter 3.1 focuses on the ancient roots of the institute of self-defense, and Subchapter 3.2 describes the...

Contentious issues of necessary defence in judicial practise Abstract The subject of this thesis is necessary defence, or more precisely some of its contentious issues that have been dealt with by Czech courts within the framework of their judicial practise. The fundamental focus of the thesis lies with the judicial decisions providing solutions to these issues, emphasis, on the other hand, is not placed on doctrinal concept of the legal institute. The thesis subjects some of the judicial decisions to evaluation and comparison with other judgments. As for the structure, the thesis is divided into a total of seven chapters with regard to the elements of necessary defence that are primarily related to the issues dealt with by the judicial practice in each particular case. The first chapter presents a brief general outline of the topic, as it pursues, above all, the function of the legal institute of necessary defence, the way how it is established within the Czech law and the character of the relevant provision of the penal code. Chapter two deals with integral prerequisites or structural elements of necessary defence, specifically attacker and defender subjects, as well as attack itself. It ponders about whether someone who is not primarily targeted by an attack can be deemed a defender. The same question is...

Disputed Issues of the Necessary Defence in Judicial Practice Abstract The thesis focuses on the issue of necessary defense in the Czech legal system, especially on the analysis and solution of the disputed queries that arrise when applying and interpreting this issue with respect to legal regulations. The main attention is dedicated to judicial decisions, however, some of the disputable issues addressed in the criminal law theory are not neglected. The thesis is composed of six chapters, together with the chapter of the Introduction which provides the basic definition of the issue and the main purpose of the work, and the Conclusion, which presents the final reflections on the findings and concludes the work. The First Chapter deals with general basics of criminal liability, focusing in particular on the concept of illegality, since the necessary defense is among the circumstances excluding illegality, which at the same time represents a reason for excluding the criminal liability of the acting person. The very circumstances excluding criminal liability are briefly mentioned and listed in Chapter Two. The purpose of the Third Chapter was to characterize the concept of extreme distress and to distinguish it from essential elements of the necessary defence which represents its privileged case. The main part...

Non-pecuniary harm and its compensation in judicial practice Abstract This thesis deals with the traditional private law issue of non-pecuniary harm and its compensation in the area of private law. The author of the thesis focuses mainly on current issues related to non-pecuniary harm with emphasis on the development of court decisions not only in the Czech legal system. Attention is also paid to the historical genesis of both, the legislation and judicial decisions. First of all, the basic concepts are analyzed, inclusive of terminological inconsistencies clearly expressed in the comparison table. Subsequently, attention in great detail is paid to the individual legal provisions dealing with the issue of non- pecuniary harm and its compensation in the current Civil Code. This thesis is divided into nine chapters. The first chapter explains the key term of non- pecuniary harm and other terms like compensation and judicial practice. The second chapter briefly introduces the protection of personality rights and means of reasonable satisfaction. The third chapter deals with the compensation for bodily harm in the Civil Code including a legally non-binding document called Methodology of the Supreme Court to compensate non-pecuniary harm to health. This non-binding document was created with the aim to help...

Thesis title in English Constitutio Criminalis Josephina and its influence on the decision-making practice of the Court of Appeal: Sexual offences in the years 1687-1727 Abstract This paper captures the development of the juridical practice of the Prague Court of Appeal between years 1687-1727 and examines the influence of the Constitutio Criminalis Josephina of 1707/8 on this practice. The research is focused on punishing of the sexual offenses, ie adultery, bigamy, fornication, incest, rape and sodomy. The primary sources for the research are law codes, especially Koldín's Code Práva městská Království českého (1579) and "Josephina"; besides them others are used: the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina (1532), the Constitutio Criminalis Ferdinandea (1656) and Brikcí's Práva městská (1536). The practice of the appellate court itself has been examined on the basis of the books of sentences that contain the judgments of that court. Firstly, the relevant legislation of the period was described for each of the offenses and then the judicial practice was examined. The applied methodology can be qualified as quantitative-qualitative comparative analysis which makes possible recognizing the changes that occurred with the implementation of "Josephina". The main findings of the thesis suggest that "Josephina" was an...

Artical 2 of civil procedure code establishes the main aims of civil litigation:defence of violated subject rights and licit interests, proper applying of law when hearing civil cases and passing judicial decisios,swift restoration of legal peace,interpretation and development of law. The essential goal of master's final thesis is to investigate how the above mentioned aims of procedure are implemented in the judicial practice. The author claims that procedural aim of proper appliance of law in the practice of Lithuanian courts is interpreted as the duty of court to identify material truth.The author as well analyses the influence of the recent reform of civil procedure unto the rapidity of litigation and states that there still exist some negative practice in pastponing the hearing of the case when there are no serious reasons for such procedural decision instesd of passing a default judgement or appying procedural penalties. It is generalished that the new Code of Civil procedure established better premises to materialise the essential aims of the procedure.

Au cours du XIIe siècle, au cœur des villes du royaume de France rendues prospères par les développements des échanges commerciaux, apparaît un nouveau monument qui incarne l’autorité du haut justicier local et son emprise sur l’espace urbain. Ce poteau armorié, appelé dès l’origine « pilori », est certes un instrument pénal qui permet d’exposer les criminels à la vindicte populaire. Ses usages sont pourtant plus riches que sa fonction punitive. Le pilori est aussi un outil de prévention du scandale, une institution au service de la paix du marché, où il est implanté, ainsi qu’un symbole de l’état du rapport de forces entre les différentes juridictions urbaines. Alors qu’il est central dans le paysage urbain, l’étude de ce signe de justice a longtemps été délaissée par l’historiographie. Le renouveau continu de l’histoire de la justice médiévale depuis les années 1990 invite à l’analyser avec le même sérieux dont les fourches patibulaires ont récemment bénéficié. Pour rendre compte de la pluralité de facettes du pilori et de la peine qui porte son nom, nous avons privilégié une approche anthropologique, centrée sur les parcours des agents confrontés à ces objets juridiques. Cela nous a amené à explorer les stratégies discursives des juges et juristes qui ont contribué à l’invention du pilori, puis à sa rapide diffusion dans tout le royaume. Nous observons ensuite comment les sens et usages de la peine d’exposition évoluent à mesure que de nouvelles juridictions s’en emparent. En parallèle, nous décrivons la prise en charge du rituel d’exposition par le public, moment de refondation, autour du personnel de justice et aux dépens du condamné, d’une confiance commune. Enfin, une sociographie des condamnés au pilori débouche sur une réflexion plus large visant à brosser le devenir des infâmes dans la société médiévale. / During the 12ᵗʰ century, at the heart of the French kingdom’s towns that thrive thanks to the development of trade, a new monument, embodying the local high justice and its foothold on the urban space, emerges. While this armorial stake, called « pillory » from the beginning, is indeed a penal device used to submit criminals to popular punishment, it has many other uses. The pillory also prevents scandals, helps protect peace on the market, where it stands, and embodies the balance of power between the different urban jurisdictions. Despite the pillory’s central location in the urban landscape, its study has been long neglected by historiography. The ongoing renewal of medieval justice studies since the 1990s encourages an analysis of the pillory as thorough as the recently-studied gallows have been. In order to expose the many facets of both the pillory and the punishment bearing the same name, an anthropological approach was favored, focusing on the stories of all the different people who were faced with these objects of justice. This brought us to explore the storytelling strategies of the judges and lawyers who contributed to the pillory’s invention and its subsequent fast spread throughout the entire kingdom. We then observe how the meanings and uses of the public exhibition sentence evolve as new jurisdictions make it their own. In the meantime, we describe how the public takes over the penal ritual, and how it rebuilds trust in each other. Finally, a sociography of the convicted to the pillory leads to broader thoughts on the fate of the infamous in medieval society.