Assisted suicide in the perspective of the Czech criminal law and a comparison with the common law Abstract The strict prohibition on assisted suicide does not reach full acceptance among the members of the Czech society, regardless of their professional or non-professional background, similarly as it did not reach full acceptance in some of the common law countries, which consequently departed or are soon to depart from this regulatory conception. The objective of the two so far proposed Czech bills was identical, however, owing to the lack of clarity and detail, which certainly did not amount to the seriousness of the issue they aimed to regulate, none of them was successful. Hence, the legislative works were recommenced last year and resulted in the third bill, which claimed to be much more elaborative on the key issues and accordingly precise in the usage of language. Although the bill has not been introduced yet, the assumptions based not only on the territorial proximity are, that its prime source of inspiration resided mostly in the permissive regulatory attitude towards assisted suicide (or voluntary, active and intentional, euthanasia) as implemented in the European countries. However, notwithstanding the utter differences in the conception of the common law legal system, especially for such...
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:453359 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Kosinková, Karolína |
| Contributors | Vokoun, Rudolf, Mulák, Jiří |
| 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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