Protection of personality rights of individuals and the protection of reputation, name and privacy of legal persons in media, including case law analysis Abstract The thesis deals with the issue of protection of personality rights of individuals as well as personal rights of legal persons in media. Current decision-making practice of the European Court of Human Rights and Czech courts shall be considered as integral to this thesis. The thesis analyses not only theoretical questions relating personality rights of individuals and personal rights of legal persons, but it also reflects practical repercussions on legal remedies. It focuses mainly on reasonable compensation, defamation as well as the right to reply and supplementary statement. With regard to theme's timeliness the thesis also reflects on legal framework of exemption from internet service provider's liability in so-called new media under the Act No. 480/2004 Sb., about Certain Services of Information Companies, as subsequently amended. The thesis is divided into seven chapters and thematically related subheadings, and its introduction and final part. The first chapter defines the essential terms relating personality rights, personal rights and media. The second chapter provides the overview of relevant sources of law. The third chapter defines...

What is the impact of financial development on economic growth and how institutional quality affects the role of financial development on economic growth? This thesis attempts to answer to these questions using a fixed effects estimation and two-step GMM estimator on a panel dataset of 93 countries from 2000-2007. The preposition is that financial sector development increases the availability of extra finance thereby increasing firms investment, which is essential for economic growth. The findings suggest that bank credit has anegative impact on economic growth. However when interacted with protection of property rights, bank credit has a positive impact economic growth. Additionally results further indicate that stock market capitalization is important for economic growth. For Countries that exhibit low levels of protection of property rights, stock market capitalization has a negative impact but countries that exhibit high protection of property rights the impact of stock market capitalization on growth is positive.

Comparison of the Control Mechanisms of the International Protection of Human Rights This Diploma Thesis deals with the Control Mechanisms in the field of International Protection of Human Rights. In this Diploma Thesis are introduced universal and regional control mechanisms and they are analysed with respect to their functioning. The aim of this Thesis is the comparison of the control mechanisms in the several aspects, especially in the terms of their efficiency, and their evaluation based on the undertaken comparison. Another purpose is to answer the question whether or not we have in the contemporary International Law functional control mechanisms of the protection of human rights and which of them can be seen as the most effective. The comparison in this Thesis emphasis on the possibility of the individual complaints. The comparison includes the formal aspects of monitoring bodies, their regulation in the relevant treaties and analysis of their functions and their efficiency. In Thesis are included and evaluated also available statistical data concerning e.g. the number of ratifications or the number of individual complaints which were lodged before the monitoring body. With respect to the topic, the Thesis is divided into the three chapters. The first chapter deals with the brief introduction...

11. Abstract in English This Master Thesis refers to the protection of personal rights of the individual in mass media. The main purpose is to analyse Czech legal regulations regarding this matter and to assess if the level of judicial remedy for the protection of personal rights is sufficient and appropriate. This thesis is focused on the collision of two fundamental rights, namely the right to protection of personal rights and that of freedom of speech and expression. Because of the growing influence of mass media, these rights are frequently at the centre of public debate and issues. The principal problem is which right should be prioritized. Both of them are established as fundamental human rights at the constitutional level therefore enjoy the same degree of protection. Attention is also paid to Spanish legal regulations of protection of personal rights of the individual in mass media. The important differences between the Czech and Spanish legal systems are pointed out throughout the whole paper. The thesis is composed of seven chapters. The first chapter is introductory. Chapter two deals with the protection of personal rights in general and explains this concept while enumerating law sources. Chapter three describes the protection of personal rights of the individual in mass media. It elaborates on...

The topic of the master thesis Protection of Personality Rights in Relation to Media is the conflict between two constitutional rights - protection of personality and freedom of speech. Both of these rights are stated in the Constitutional Act No. 2/1993 thus they have an equal level of legal protection. However, conflicts can arise between the two. The thesis evaluates and analyses these two crucial rights and their conflicts. This thesis is divided into four main chapters, which are the following: Protection of personality, Freedom of speech as a main principle of media law, Protection of personality versus freedom of speech in the practice of the Constitutional Court, and Media development and its influence on the protection of personality. The first and the second part of the thesis analyse protection of personality and freedom of speech. The aim of the first two chapters is to present the sources of these rights, to define basic concepts, meanings and limits of these rights and to describe their possible restrictions. The third part of the thesis discusses general principles according to which possible conflict between the two rights should be solved. It also examines selected Czech court cases. Finally, the fourth chapter outlines media development since the 1970s with special emphasis on the...

The thesis addresses primarily the conflict between the protection of personality and another constitutionally guaranteed fundamental right - the freedom of expression. These rights, that happen to be often in a conflict, are rights of an equal legal protection, one does not have a priority over the other one and so it is a challenge for the courts to decide which one to prefer in particular cases while taking the specific circumstances of the each case into account. The thesis aims to examine this conflict in detail and to analyse it. The first chapter focuses on general questions related to personality rights, addresses the term "personality", the historic development of the personality rights regulation within the area of the Czech Republic and its presence in the current legal system with the accent to the recodification of the civil law, which has taken place hand in hand with the act no. 89/2012 Coll., Civil code, entering into force, while an assessment of the changes that the new regulation of the civil law has brought is one of the partial aims of the thesis. In the second chapter is discussed the unlawful interference with the personality rights that constitutes a private law tort. In the same time this chapter addresses the circumstances excluding the unlawfulness and deals with the...

Theory and Practice of Legal Protection of Personality Rights Legal protection of personality rights is a specific and important issue, which allows every human being to enjoy his or her personality rights without any interventions. This kind of protection is grounded on the obligation of the society as a whole to respect human dignity and the inviolability of personality of every individual. Based on findings contained in my diploma thesis, the Czech legislation pays considerable attention to the protection of personality rights especially in the provisions of the Civil Code and the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, both providing legal guarantees for defending oneself against illegally attacked parts of human personality. This kind of legal protection is supported by the effectiveness of the new Civil Code; unlike the previous Civil Code, it expands the number of provisions protecting human personality rights. My diploma thesis clearly suggests that the Czech legal regulation offers to injured individuals different possibilities of claiming their personality rights, for example, how to seek protection of already violated rights, which should be evaluated positively. However, it should be noted that legal practitioners must do their best to make efficient the means for remedying violated...

The thesis deals with the protection of land ownership rights against unlawful interference. The aim of the thesis is to present and analyze interference with land ownership and outline means of protection against unlawful interference. This thesis pays attention to new Civil Code and comparison with current regulation. Thesis also includes relevant decisions issued by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Administrative Court and the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic with regard to protection of land ownership. The thesis is composed of three main parts. The first part is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the thesis. This part describes land ownership and its specific features. The following part describes and anylyzes what is meant by interference with land ownership. This part ilustrates interference allowed or recognized by law and unlawful interference. The interference with land ownership can be caused by public authority or by other people. This part also explores interference with land ownership within neighbour relations. Special attention is given to interference with ownership regarding entry to land, on the basis of selected legal regulations that are related to land ownership and environmental law. The third part is subdivided into two subparts and provides overview...

The thesis deals with legal tools for the protection of personal rights of an individual in civil law. The aim of diploma thesis is to show how important the protection of personal rights in our modern day society is, to analyse available instruments for the protection of general right to personality in civil law and to evaluate these instruments of protection as well as their ability to provide effective protection. The thesis is composed of Nine chapters in 78 pages of text. Chapter One deals with the introduction to the subject of the thesis and tries to capture the reader's focus, and also sets the theme of the thesis. Chapter Two explains the concept of general right to personality and its defining features along with its historical development. It is also focused on defining its place among other kinds of rights in our national legal system. The third chapter deals with legal guarantees of protection of personality on both the national and the international levels (based upon international treaties). It consists of three parts. The first part deals with constitutional law. Part Two describes international treaties which protect general right to personality. The third part deals with national statutes which define personality rights and legal instruments for their protection. Chapter Four is...

This Master Thesis deals with institute of monetary satisfaction as a legal tool for the protection of personality under civil law. The aim of this thesis is to give a comprehensive explanation of the Institute of monetary satisfaction. This work uses descriptive and analytical method. The work is composed of six chapters; each chapter is dividend in several subchapters. The right of personality protection is a fundamental right of every individual that guarantees his or her dignified existence and free development in society. The Czech Republic provides a modern legal regime for the protection of personality since 1990, when the Civil Code has been amended. Protection of personality is regulated by the Civil Code in sections 11 to 16. In Section 13, the Civil Code expressly grants four types of civil tools for protection of personality - the right of retention, the right to restitution and the right to adequate satisfaction that can take either moral or material form. In serious cases of violations of personality rights, the monetary satisfaction is the only sufficient and therefore effective and fair remedy for the immaterial injury on personality of affected person that has been caused by the unlawful interference into his or her personality. The monetary satisfaction as a legal mean of the...