CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL ENTITIES Abstract Although it has been more than seven years since the adoption of Act No. 418/2011 Coll., on the criminal liability of legal entities and proceedings against them, by criminal liability of legal entities which the Czech legislators introduced, it remains a controversial issue. Thus the aim of this thesis is not only to analyse this legislation and provide a comprehensive and clear interpretation, including a critical evaluation of selected institutes, but also to introduce the process leading to its adoption, including a comparison of the arguments in favour of adopting such a decision with the arguments presented by the opponents of the criminal liability of legal entities. An equally important aim of the thesis is an analytical evaluation of application knowledge and the presentation of potential de lege ferenda proposals. However, such considerations require a sufficient command of terminology, as well as of the basic principles of criminal law, which is the content of Chapter One of the thesis. Chapter Two is dedicated to the fundamental change in the concept of legal entities brought about by the new Civil Code, which leans towards the theory of fiction, thereby causing considerable tension. On a global scale, the institute of the liability of legal entities...

The aim of this thesis is to give an interpretation on the responsibility and liability of the statutory bodies of the company, as the statutory body presents a series of rights and obligations, the omission or improper performance can have on society and individuals far-reaching consequences. The thesis contains an analysis of the Act No. 418/2011 Coll. the criminal liability of legal persons and proceedings against them, defining the type of criminal liability of legal persons in Europe and comparison of Czech and Slovak legislation. At the conclusion are included proposals de lege designed law relating to the provisions of Act No. 418/2011 Coll.