Abuse of Public Law in Judicial Decisions This thesis discusses the relevance and meaning of the principle of "abuse of law" in Czech public law, and consists of six chapters. A brief opening chapter sets out the aim of the thesis, namely to provide a theoretical analysis of the concept of abuse of law, using conclusions that are established in Czech jurisprudence. The second chapter deals with the substantial rulings of the Czech Supreme Court viewing the abuse of law concept in terms of civil law, because the abuse of law principle came to light firstly in Czech civil law. The prospective enactment of the abuse of law principle in the Czech Civil Code Bill is also mentioned. The third chapter is crucial to this thesis, and reflects the approach of the Czech Supreme Administrative Court (the SAC) to the doctrine of abuse of law. The first Czech ruling in which the concept of the abuse of tax law occurred was Divers, no. 1 Afs 107/2004 - 48. In Divers, the SAC construed a very in-depth argument supporting the applicability of the abuse of law principle to the field of taxation (which is part of public law). Then the process during which the SAC developed the abuse of law concept in its rulings, including the first application of the Halifax two-stage abuse test is described. The parallel concepts...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:297028 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Vinčálková, Lucie |
| Contributors | Kühn, Zdeněk, Beran, Karel |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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