This thesis aims at a close examination of the problematic position of a third party in the proceedings to compel the execution of judgement and the execution proceedings. The only defensive instrument of a third party against the encroachment on their rights is the action to exempt a claim, which is the focus of my thesis. Although it is a defence against the proceedings to compel the execution of judgement and execution proceedings, the hearing about the action to exempt a claim is liable to a special type of the finding trial proceedings. The thesis includes also a short discourse on the proceedings to compel the execution of judgement and execution proceedings as these proceedings precede the action to exempt a claim. The thesis is divided into ten chapters. The first chapter is an introduction to the problems of the action to exempt a claim, which includes setting the target of my thesis. It is linked to the second chapter where I define the main terms used in my thesis. The third chapter is formed by a short historical excursion into the proceedings to compel the execution of judgement, execution proceedings and the action to exempt a claim. This chapter is further divided into subsections according to the law of a particular country and timeline. The following chapter Four contains the...

This PhD by published work consists of: • 1 single authored monograph; • 1 single authored paper in a refereed journal; • 4 main authored articles in refereed journals; • 3 joint authored articles in refereed journals; • 1 joint authored paper in a non refereed journal; and • 3 joint authored published reports. It covers the period 2009-2014 This thesis and the papers submitted demonstrate my significant contribution to a body of knowledge that provides a rich and unique insight to the development of changes in legislation and protocols in child protection practice. Particular expertise is threefold: the impact on the practice of all professionals involved with vulnerable families and children; the impact on the assessment of risk and working with families and children; and the impact on the ‘timetable for the child’. The publications reflect an examination of pre-proceedings protocols over a 5-year period. Throughout, the work demonstrates a theoretical and practical commitment to fairness and justice for families. The rationale that underpins this thesis is the need to explore the impact of procedural changes to the lives of children and their families. The rhetoric of improving pre-proceedings work in an attempt to divert cases away from court, and to ensure decisions that are made for children are both rigorous and timely, is at odds from the reality of practice on the ground. The recent hegemonic concern with the timetable for the child (Holt and Kelly, 2014) reinforces a change agenda that was ushered in ahead of the Children and Families Act that became law on 22nd April 2014. The President of the Family Division, Sir James Munby, has stated that 26 weeks completion time when cases progress to court is ‘a deadline not a target’, reinforcing the message that only a ‘comparatively small number of exceptional cases’ will fall outside it (Munby, 2013:4). This leaves little time for the court to intervene when cases have not been properly progressed at the pre-proceedings stage. The evidence from detailed observations of practice at all levels within pre-proceedings protocols affords an opportunity to send a clear message to legislators, policy makers and practitioners. Front-loading and diverting more cases into pre-proceedings protocols is quite simply a strategic measure to reduce the financial burden away from the courts and to place this elsewhere. Local authorities have child protection systems that are properly designed to support children who are in need of protection, and where it has been decided by professionals from a range of agencies working with families that the risk cannot be managed without the need to seek the involvement of the court, there should be no further delay. My concern is that in many instances children are already left holding the risk for too long. The question must be raised as to why, when a range of professionals working with the child and their family make the decision that an application to court should be made, a system that purports to hold children and families at the heart builds in further delay.

This Master's thesis describes the position of a minor debtor in enforcement proceedings. The aim of this thesis it to, first, provide with a complex summary of the issue, concerning primarily topical questions which are discussed by experts in connection with childrens' indebbtedness, and second, to further identify the key drawbacks regarding the enforcement proceedings against minor debtors, with an offer for a solution. The thesis is subdivided into two parts. In the first part, there is the notion of a minor defined - for the purposes of this text, a minor is a person who is younger than eighteen years old and, concurrently, who was not emancipated by a court. The following chapters describe the protection of a minor in the legal system in general, where there are principles of best interest of a child and the right of a child to be respected in their opinion described. Further, the procedural protection of a minor is discussed, concerning primarily the procedural specifics of trials where a minor is a party to the case, including enforcement proceedings. Proper representation of a minor and provision of information to minors is emphasized within the chapter. At the very beginning of the second part, enforcement proceedings is described, and then the particulars of this proceedings are...

Reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings Abstract Thesis Reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings describes and evaluates selected concepts concerning the reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings. The primary goal is to describe essence of reimbursement of costs and to answer this common question: "Who shall pay it in the end?" Thesis is dived into three parts. The thesis starts with introduction where author sets goals of the thesis and methods of scientific work to compile and process assigned subject. Furthermore there is briefly defined distinction between reimbursement of costs and payment of costs. The part is concluded with description of the goals of costs in proceedings and types of systems of reimbursement of costs. The first part of the thesis is concerned with reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings. The first chapter starts with reimbursement of costs in trial and adversarial proceedings. This chapter is the most extensive. It consists of description of reimbursement of costs and types of costs. There is also dedicated part to decisions and remedies concerning the reimbursement of costs. The second chapter is concerned with reimbursement of costs in trial and non-adversarial proceedings. This...

Reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings Abstract Thesis reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings describes and evaluates selected concepts concerning the reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings. The primary goal is to describe essence of reimbursement of costs and to answer this common question: "Who shall pay it in the end?". Thesis is dived into four parts. The thesis starts with introduction where author sets goals of the thesis and methods of scientific work to compile and process assigned subject. In the first part author briefly defines terms trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings in order to clarify subject of the thesis. Furthermore there is briefly defined distinction between reimbursement of costs and payment of costs. The second part of the thesis is concerned with reimbursement of costs in trial and adversarial proceedings. This part is the most extenstive and most evaluated. It consists of description of reimbursement of costs and types of costs. There is also dedicated part to decisions and remedies concerning the reimbursement of costs. Third part is concerned with reimbursement of costs in trial and non-adversarial proceedings. Third part is divided into three chapters according to the...

The subject matter of my Master's degree thesis is the issue of divorce proceedings. The main aim of this thesis is to put an interpretation on the currently effective legislation on divorce proceedings and divorce itself as it follows mainly from Act No. 292/2013 Coll., on Special Judicial Proceedings and Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code. Divorce is the only legally permissible way in the Czech Republic how to terminate marriage within both spouses' lives. It leads to severe legal consequences affecting not just spouses themselves but alternatively their legitimate children as well. Therefore it requires a set of special rules and special proceedings so that courts may ascertain the presence of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage which only justifies allowing divorce and decide spouses' personal and property relations in connection with divorce. This thesis is divided into five parts which all bear certain relation to divorce proceedings. The first part provides an overview of divorce regulations throughout Czech history up to now. The second part firstly addresses the relation between substantive law and procedural law regarding divorce. Subsequently, it focuses on substantive legislation on divorce in the Czech Republic. All local possible types of divorce, the divorce ground and results...

This diploma thesis Reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and enforcement proceedings describes the main aspects related to reimbursement of costs in the two kinds of civil procedure. Reimbursement of costs is seen as a secondary topic, but can cause serious property issues to the parties. The purpose of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive look at the issue of reimbursement of costs in trial and enforcement proceedings. The thesis is composed of an introduction, two main sections which are dealing with reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and reimbursement of costs in the enforcement proceedings and conclusion. In the introduction I'm dealing with the reasons why I've chosen this topic. The actual text of the thesis is divided into two main parts - reimbursement of costs in trial proceedings and reimbursement of costs in the enforcement proceedings. The first part deals with selected kinds of costs, with an emphasis on case law, and also deals with the issues connected with the abolition of regulation No. 484/2000 Coll. Within subchapters 1.2 and 1.3 I analyze reimbursement of costs in the contentious and non-contentious proceedings, individual principles governing the reimbursement of costs and institutes related to reimbursement, specifically pre- action appeal and the...

En droit de l’exécution des peines, deux procès essentiels peuvent se jouer pour le condamné : le procès disciplinaire et le procès d’application des peines. En dépit du clivage droit privé-droit public qui les caractérise, ces deux procès se sont inscrits ces dernières années dans une même logique juridictionnelle. Souvent envisagés de manière distincte, l’intérêt de notre étude sera de démontrer qu’au delà du polymorphisme du droit et des organes juridictionnels ou non juridictionnels auxquels ces procès se rattachent, ces derniers ont connu une évolution concomitante en termes de reconnaissance de garanties procédurales. Ainsi, aujourd’hui, on peut affirmer qu’un véritable droit commun de l’exécution des peines est né. Néanmoins, ce tronc commun présente encore de nombreuses insuffisances au regard des principes qui doivent caractériser un procès équitable (indépendance, impartialité, publicité...). Malgré cela, les juridictions françaises refusent toujours de reconnaître l’applicabilité de certains principes supra-législatifs au milieu carcéral en se fondant sur des critères qui leur sont propres et sur une qualification erronée du contentieux disciplinaire. Dès lors, cette étude se propose de mettre en exergue la véritable qualification "pénale" de ce contentieux et prône le principe d’unicité de l’action répressive. De ce fait, il s’agira de déterminer l’organe le mieux à même de protéger les droits des condamnés. Se posera alors la question de l’hypothèse d’un procèscommun par la prise en compte du lien existant entre les procès de l’exécution des peines au travers des retraits de réductions de peine / In the law of enforcement of the sentences, two essential proceedings are at stake for the sentenced person : the disciplinary proceeding and the enforcement proceeding. In recent years and despite the division between private law and public law that characterizes them, these proceedings have come within the framework of a unique jurisdictional logic. Although they are often envisaged as different, the interest of this study is to demonstrate that beyond the polymorphism of the law, on the one part,and the jurisdictional and non jurisdictional organs to which these proceedings are connected, on the other part, the last ones have known a concomitant evolution in terms of recognition of procedural safeguards. Thus, today, we can assert that a real general law of enforcement of the sentences was born. Nevertheless, this common-core syllabus still shows numerous inadequacies towards the principles which must characterize a fair trial (independence, impartiality, public hearing…). In spiteof this, French courts still refuse to admit the applicability of certain supra-legal principles in prison environment, basing themselves on proper criteria and on an erroneous legal definition of disciplinary proceedings. Therefore, this study intends to underline the real criminal definition of these proceedings and advocates the principle of unity of law enforcement. As a matter of fact, the question is to determine the organ best to protect the rights of the sentenced person. Then, will arise thequestion of the hypothesis of a common proceeding by taking into account the existing link between the enforcement of the sentence proceeding, through revocations of reductions of sentences

Selected Issues of Criminal Proceedings against a Legal Entity Abstract As the name implies, this work deals with selected issues of criminal proceedings against a legal entity. In the presented work, the author aims to draw attention to some difficulties that may arise in criminal proceedings due to the typical nature of legal entities, and to the selected institute of criminal procedural law comparison of the application of principles of criminal proceedings between natural person and legal entities. In fact, the initial problem may be that the current criminal law relating to legal entities is launched briefly. Therefore, this work reflects the current special legislation governing criminal proceedings against legal entities in the sense of Act No. 418/2011 Coll., of criminal liability of legal entities and proceedings against them, applying the relationship of subsidiarity to the general legislation of criminal procedural law, namely Act No. 141/1961 Coll., of Criminal Procedure. At first, the author briefly addresses the question of whether the principles of criminal proceedings apply to criminal proceedings against a legal entity. For the purposes of further formulation of this work, the author simultaneously discusses in the first chapter the principle of equality before the law. In other parts of...

An injured party in criminal proceedings and his protection Abstract This diploma thesis is focused on the topic of the injured party in criminal proceedings and its protection. The thesis provides explanation of the term of injured party including both positive and negative definitions, enumerates its granted rights. In the following chapters, the author describes other related institutes and provides a critical view on current legislation while proposing relevant changes. The thesis is divided into six chapters. At first, the term of the injured party is defined in the context of current legislation. This part is introduced with a brief summary of historical development of the term in context of legislation within our territory. In the following chapter, it continues with introducing the term of victim of a crime, which is closely related to the term of injured party. Both of these terms are compared to each other and it is emphasized that they are not hiearchical and cannot be used interchangeably. Subsequently, enumeration of procedural rights that the criminal code grants to the injured party is provided. Specific legislation related to granting of consent to prosecute by the injured party is examined. The procedural rights are categorized based on whether the criminal code grants a specific right to...