Territorial Jurisdiction of Administrative Bodies Abstract The aim of the present diploma thesis is to make an interpretation of the existing legislation regulating the territorial jurisdiction of administrative bodies. The interpretation includes an in-depth analysis of the subject matter in question, highlights some minor shortcomings of the existing legislation and outlines the relevant remedial proposals. The present study primarily draws on legal regulations, case law and specialized literature as its main resources. It is divided into five chapters. The first chapter gives a description of territorial jurisdiction development after the emergence of independent Czechoslovakia in 1918, focusing on two fundamental legal regulations: legal regulation in the 1928 Government Decree and legal regulation in the 1967 Rules of Administrative Procedure. The second chapter is devoted to the existing legislation regulating the territorial jurisdiction of administrative bodies. It reviews the theoretical background to the subject-matter as well as territorial jurisdiction of administrative bodies and their functional competence. Common rules of regulation of territorial jurisdiction in the 2004 Rules of Administrative Procedure are discussed, with a special focus placed on the criteria used to define the...

The main objective of this master thesis is to provide a view into the development of subject matter and territorial jurisdiction in administrative infraction proceedings as a part of administrative punishment law. The thesis handles this issue in its entirety, that is form its origins up to considerations on the future legal regulation, and, furthermore, analyses the issue into more depth. The thesis relies mainly on legal regulation and relevant literature as its primary sources and is divided into three chapters. The first chapter, firstly, deals with the development of subject matter and territorial jurisdiction in the 18th and 19th century and focuses on the formation of the concept of infraction itself, its division into the categories of administrative and judicial infraction and the gradual obsolescence of the phenomenon of judicial infraction. Secondly, it handles the transfer of subject matter jurisdiction in "judicial" infraction proceedings from administrative authorities to courts and, thirdly, defines the three bodies authorized to conduct administrative infraction proceedings. In the second chapter, the issue of subject matter and territorial jurisdiction in the 20th century is dealt with. Its primary aim is to describe several unsuccessful legislative proposals in the area of...

Over the years, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has received criticism for exercising its territorial jurisdiction over non-state parties’ nationals. Non-state parties claim that the Court is illegitimate and that its jurisdictional claim over their nationals violates the principle of consent in public international law. This thesis aims to develop interdisciplinary research into international relations and international law by asking the question of how the alleged legitimacy deficit of the ICC can be alleviated. The interdisciplinary methodology is approached through supplementing the legal dogmatic method with international relations theory. In turn, the analysis is carried out in two sections, one dedicated to legal analysis and the other to the international relations theory constructivism. The main finding of legal analysis is that the ICC’s jurisdictional claim over non-state parties is in most cases fully in line with the principle of consent. The analysis finds that the main solution to the legitimacy deficit is that the Court should make an effort to employ its secondary and tertiary sources of law in its interpretation. Both the legal analysis and constructivist theory point to the ICC needing to be more persuasive. The ICC and its allies should create new understandings about it through norm transformation. This norm transformation will take the form of legal persuasion as well as diplomatic and political pressure. In regard to the interdisciplinary research agenda, this inquiry demonstrates that interdisciplinary researchers can tap into the legal discipline and its methodology by embracing legal formalism. Such use of the legal discipline will also allow for constructivists to learn from legal scholars about persuasion and norm systematisation.

The Czech Republic as a signatory of the Convention on the Rights of the Child has vested the practice of state administration in the field of care for minor children to municipalities with extended powers, where the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of minor children is safeguarded by state authorities of social and legal protection of children (ASLPC hereinafter). These authorities are incorporated to the extent laid down by the Act on Social and Legal Protection of Children (Act No 359/1999 Coll., as amended). The position and roles of ASLPC and their competence and jurisdiction are also regulated by the same act. The position of workers of these authorities and its legal embodiment is equally important. Regarding professionality, there are high demands on these workers. In the Czech Republic, significant changes in legislature have been made over the past three years. These amendments have led to the strengthening of the rights of minor children and to the establishing of new tools for their protection. In connection with the adoption of new substantive regulation of family law, which is now exhaustively dealt with by the Act No 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code, new procedural rules have been established regarding protection of rights of minor children. Such procedural legislation includes (apart from the long-existent Act No. 99/1963, the Code of Civil Procedure) the Act No 292/2013 Coll., on Special Civil Proceedings. The decision-making regarding minor children has been vested mainly by the state into the competence of courts. The courts appoint the locally relevant ASLPC as a guardian who then represents the interests of minor children. The purpose, interwoven with and derived from the first one, was to explore the opinions of selected social workers of ASLPC and of district court judges regarding the defined problems occurring during the work of ASLPCs and courts while protecting the interests of minor children. These particularly include: the use of the tool of precautionary measure; problems of different territorial jurisdiction of courts and ASLPCs; processing of complaints regarding bias in various phases of the proceedings; professional training of workers of ASLPC It is evident from the proposals of both judges and ASLPC workers that it is necessary to unify territorial jurisdiction. The courts are suggesting the priority criterion of the address where the child mainly resides. ASLPC workers suggest the official permanent residence as the prime criterion. Bias causes problems in all phases of proceedings. It is obvious that courts take differing approaches towards the solution of this problem (some courts solve the problem of bias complaints filed by the parties while other courts do not) and for ASLPC workers it is difficult to assess how to act when such complaint is raised against them. The training of ASLPC workers - workers are obliged to educate themselves and their employer is obliged to finance such training. Not all ASLPCs are able to provide training in the required extent - due to financial reasons (the average costs of education of one employee pose from 9,169 to 13,400 CZK annually and they cover approximately 6 days of training). The heavy work-load caused by insufficient numbers of ASLPC employees prevents them from completing such compulsory training. As part of the examination of the "participation of a collision guardian in court proceedings" it has been found out that irregular participation of the worker in the proceedings (absence from participation in appeals proceedings); incomplete reports (directed to courts) from surveys in families. Based on comprehensive examination of the problems of territorial jurisdiction, it was recommended that requests are independently recorded and financial compensation is provided for ASLPCs who are requested to represent minors in front of courts, to draft proposals for precautionary measures.