Invalidity and Ineffectiveness of Legal Action in Insolvency Proceedings Abstract The subject of this thesis is a comprehensive analysis of the institute of invalidity of legal actions and ineffectiveness of legal actions and the incorporation of these concepts in contemporary legal theory and practice. The legislation protects the rights of recipients of the law and the public interest by identifying the legal actions which contradict the principles of morality or (and?) the law, as absolutely or relatively invalid, if the meaning and the purpose of the Act so require. Legal actions are also considered invalid if those actions undertake to the fulfilment of something impossible and in certain cases also if those actions are not made in the required form or if they are an error. The current legislation also protects creditors from the behaviour of debtors, if they intentionally shorten their creditors, through an institution called the relative ineffectiveness of legal action. The purpose is to protect creditors, guarantors and other persons against this shortening legal actions made by debtors. Such conduct of the debtor is formally not problematic, but it damages creditors, who therefore have the right to demand that the court determines such action is ineffective (only) against them. The author's...

Non-existence as a new institution of Czech law Abstract The aim of the thesis is to examine the institute of non-existence which is new in the Czech law. Therefore, the beginning of the thesis is arranged in order to make clear the chronological development of civil law in terms of wrongful conduct and/or wrongful legal act sanctions. Historically, the General Civil Code (ABGB) is of particular relevance. ABGB was an important civil code not only on our territory but also in Austria and other countries of the former Habsburg Monarchy. While the original text of this Code sanctioned wrongful legal acts by invalidity ("Ungültigkeit"), the 1916 amendment introduced another term into the Code, taken from the German Civil Code (BGB), and namely "Nichtigkeit". Although this term means "invalidity" as well, it was mistakenly translated into Czech by the word "nicotnost" (literally "nothingness" in English). In the thesis, the legal situation in the period from 1948 till 2014 is discussed briefly, mentioning in particular the Family Act which, commencing from 1998, included, in addition to the term "invalidity" (of marriage), also the term "non-existence" (of marriage) stating that no marriage is formed in these cases. The following part of the thesis deals with the applicable law. The problems of legal act, its...

Hearing Preparation in Contentious Procedure Abstract Hearing preparation is a key phase of civil proceedings, in which the judge, with the assistance of the parties, shall prepare the hearing effectively and consistently and subsequently takes a decision pursuant to Section 114a(1) of Act No. 99/1963 Coll., Code of Civil Procedure, as amended, at a single hearing. The aim of this diploma thesis is to carry out a comprehensive analysis of valid and effective legal regulations concerning the preparation of a hearing in contentious procedure in the Czech Republic. To fulfill this goal, this thesis is divided into six chapters. The first chapter defines the concept of hearing preparation and formulates its objectives. For the sake of clarity, hearing preparation is divided into two levels, namely the hearing preparation in terms of its form and the hearing preparation in terms of its material, the so-called proper hearing preparation. These two levels are also described in the first chapter. The second chapter briefly outlines the development of the Czech legislation on hearing preparation, paying particular attention to two important amendments to the Code of Civil Procedure, which have a common objective to strengthen the stage of hearing preparation. The third chapter introduces the individual basic...

Preparation of a hearing in the civil procedure The topic of this thesis is preparation of a hearing in civil procedure. It represents a phase of civil procedure which starts the moment the action it brought to the court and ends with the hearing itself. The hearing should be regarded as the culmination of the whole procedure, which is why the right approach to the preparation of a hearing is not any less important than the hearing itself. The aim of this thesis is to give a comprehensive overview of this issue by reviewing the past, analysing the present legislation and providing de lege ferenda reflection. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first one is a historical overview, in which the author describes the legal development of the preparation of a hearing since 19th century until present. Legal principles, that has formed during this legal evolution and that are affecting today's legislation, are described in the beginning of the second part of the thesis. Principle of concentration and of single hearing being the two most emphasized principles. The majority of the second part deals with the current legislation, which is primarily contained in the art. 114 to 114c of the Czech Civil Procedure Code. The thesis describes the specific steps that the court has to undertake after the...

1 Hearing in the civil proceedings - Abstract The diploma thesis deals with the course of hearing from its order, through the initiation to the end and issuance of the decision on the merits, since only properly run hearing is a guarantee of fair and complete hearing on the merits without delay. At the same time, the thesis pays attention to the principles that relate to hearing and whose observance ensures the participants right to a fair trial. The thesis will deal with the course of hearing both in adversarial and inquisitorial proceedings. The first chapter defines the concept of civil proceedings, hearing, and it is consequently stated by whom the proceedings are governed. The second chapter discusses the principles of hearing that are part of the right to a fair trial. It is a principle of public, oral and straightforward. When dealing with the principle of public, there is a certain amount of space devoted to the reasons for which the public can be absolutely or partially excluded from the hearing. The chapter also deals with the possibilities to ensure a dignified and undisturbed course of hearing, including ways and restrictions on the acquisition of audio and video recordings and transmissions from hearings. The longest and the most comprehensive chapter in the thesis is the third chapter, in...

Putative and invalid termination of employment by the employee Abstract The aim of this diploma thesis was to provide the reader with a comprehensive explanation of the issue of putative and invalid termination of employment by the employee and to offer a suitable procedure for resolving such a situation, which the employer could use in these cases. For this purpose, this thesis was divided into four main chapters. The first of them is devoted to a brief definition of the relationship between the Labor Code and the Civil Code, its development in recent years, as well as the definition of the terms employment relationship, its termination and dismissal. Through this introduction to the issue, the exact scope of this thesis is defined, ie the putativeness and invalidity of juridical acts by which the employee unilaterally terminates the employment relationship, namely dismissal, immediate termination and termination of employment during the probationary period. The second chapter deals with juridical acts and their defects. First, the individual conceptual features and subsequently also the requisites of the juridical act are thoroughly analyzed, so that it is possible to deal in detail with individual cases of putativeness and invalidity of termination of employment, and then the concepts of putativeness and...

The offence proceedings are a special type of the administrative proceedings, through which the administrative body adjudicate on the accused of the offence and his guilt and punishment. The purpose of the offence proceedings is to find out solution of a question, if the offence was committed and who is responsible for that. The offence proceedings are regulated mainly in the code no. 200/1990 Sb., Act on Transgressions, and subsidiary in the code no. 500/2004 Sb., Administrative Procedure Rules. Also legal principles are very important and influencing the offence proceedings. The offence is the object of the offence proceedings. The offence according to the Czech legal system is considered as a wrongful act which is injurious to the public as the crime is, but the difference between them is that the offence is less serious than a crime. The participants and the administrative body are the subjects of this type of proceedings. The offences are heard by the administrative body and the administrative body decides on rights and impose the obligations towards the offender. The participants of the offence proceedings are the accused of the offence, the aggrieved party, the owner of the thing, that might be confiscated, and the applicant, who put the petition. Before the offence proceedings begin, there is a...

Notarial deed as an obligatory form of juridical act for disposition mortis causa The purpose of my thesis is to discuss about juridical act for disposition mortis causa which for its validity requires mandatory form of notarial deed with a brief explanation of particular institutes. Submitted work is divided into eight chapters, the first chapter begins with a foreword by which is the work briefly introduced and shows the readers in the issue. The second chapter discusses about the importance of a notarial deed of juridical act for disposition mortis causa and highlights the benefits of drafting these documents by professional lawyer, such as notary, in comparison with risks that might come if the acquirer of these documents decides for a private form. In this chapter I also show on the probative force of public documents compared to private documents. In conclusion of this chapter is a brief list of the mandatory requirement of a notarial deed of juridical act for disposition mortis causa, including authorization to admit and lend these notarial acts. The third chapter deals in detail the "old-new" institute of contract of inheritance, its history and a brief comparison with the institute of donation mortis causa. The fourth chapter of my work pays attention to renunciation of the right of...

Invalidity of Legal Acts in Civil Law The purpose of this thesis is to analyse comprehensively the institute of invalidity of legal acts, as the most common consequence of defects of legal acts. The invalidity is one of the most important institutes of private law, because the whole society has always needed to act legally and also to rely on the validity of their legal acts. It is necessary to define essential elements of legal acts and the consequences of non compliance with them. This thesis, which is divided into five chapters, deals with the essential elements of legal acts, the defects of legal acts and most importantly the consequences of these defects which is the nullity and mainly the invalidity and voidability of legal acts. First chapter is introductory and describes the evolution of legislation of civil law in Czech Republic because it has came through many significant changes including the field of invalidity of legal acts. Particularly the Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, has brought many positive changes this year. Second chapter is divided into three subchapters. It briefly describes the legal facts and it focuses mainly to legal acting as the most important legal fact. It explains the term and the substance of legal acts, names the essential elements of legal acts and the...

Objectionability and relative ineffectiveness The purpose of my thesis is to analyse the notion of relative ineffectiveness, the institute of private law, which serves as a protection of the creditor against the certain legal acts of his debtor. This institute was known as objectionability before the new civil code came into effect. The aim of this paper is to explain the importance of relative ineffectiveness and to distinguish this institute from the sanctions of the defective legal act. The first chapter of my thesis deals with the notion of legal act and its elements which are essential for the existence of the valid and effective legal act. The subsequent parts examine the results of the situations in which the requirements to elements of legal act are not fulfilled. The chapter Two deals with the defects of legal act causing its nonexistence. The following chapter Three concerns the sanction of invalidity and the chapter Four explains the notion of ineffectiveness. The explanation of those sanctions is important for its mutual differentiation and for the subsequent analysis of the institute of relative ineffectiveness, because only valid and effective legal act can be pronounced by court as relatively ineffective. After analysis of different types of sanctions of defective legal act, the...