Collective (group, mass) actions and their trying Abstract With regard to both global and national developments, it is necessary to respond to the societal changes brought about by it in the field of private law. One of these changes is also the mass of legal relationships consisting of the existence of a large number of almost identical rights and obligations between one or more entities on the one hand and thousands and millions on the other. In practice, new problems arise, such as overloading the courts, enormous costs of proceedings, recurring evidence, and so on. And these problems represent challenges that intitutes of collective rights protection, generally reffered to as collective actions, has to cope with. These include group action, representative action, test-case action, public group action, and so on. The prototype of all these actions is U.S. class action with deep historical roots, which has become the most used and the most famous. Also, in many other countries of the world and Europe, collective actions have been introduced in various forms, often inspired by U.S. class action. Collective protection of rights has been unresolved topic without the prospect of a comprehensive legislative framework until recently, but now the situation is different and the civil procedural law will be...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:380275 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Benko, Jan |
| Contributors | Holčapek, Tomáš, Dvořák, Bohumil |
| 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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