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of law, and are binding for general courts. If a lower court is to rule against "consistent adjudications" of the Supreme Court on the point of law, it must give detailed reasoning, and this can often be a reason for a successful appeal. This system is largely based on judiciary's own interpretation of the Constitution, arguing that it gives citizens predictability and fairness. The most significant judgements of both courts are published in the official Collection of Laws.
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Theoretically, case law is not defined as a source of law in the Czech Republic. Despite that, the decisions of courts, namely supreme courts and the Constitutional Court, have a significant influence over the Czech legal system since 1989. Findings of the Constitutional Court are considered a source
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The purpose of the 2009 codification was to bring the criminal justice system in line with the rest of Europe. The main change introduced by the code was transition from material to formal conception of criminal offence. Another thing the lawyers drafting the 2009 code had in mind, and expressed it
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for offences committed by employees of a corporation, when acting on its behalf, being instructed by the board of directors or other representative of the company, or through lack of their action. In such cases, not only individuals will be prosecuted, but the corporation can be prosecuted as well
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Until 2009, the criminal code statute in force dated back to 1961. In spite of numerous amendments made since 1989, it still conformed to the communist ideology, oriented on punishment of perceived enemies of the socialist regime. As a part of an effort to comprehensively reform law and justice, a
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in 1918 by Czechoslovakia, among other successor states, but only for Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia), while Slovakia kept the customary law of Hungary. Albeit updated many times, this Austrian law was kept in Czechoslovakia, along with the legal duality, until 1950, when the
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brand new codification has been written. The Ministry of Justice announced it as an "elaborate piece of work boiled down from the experience and knowledge of foremost expert on criminal law", which can be proudly compared to modern criminal codes of other democratic countries.
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In full: Resolution no. 2/1993 Coll. of the Presidium of the Czech National Council of 16 December 1992 on the declaration of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms as a part of the constitutional order of the Czech
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in the area of sentencing tariffs, was a new balance of punishment against rehabilitation effect on the criminal. On one hand we see the sentences for felony (
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declares sovereignty (self-government) of the people and the values of freedom and democracy. It defines the separation of the three powers in a system of
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for the same offence and punished by a host of measures, starting from certain injunctions, through fines a forfeitures, to liquidation of the company.
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which amends the Constitutional Act No. 1/1993 Coll., the Constitution of the Czech Republic as amended by subsequent constitutional acts
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The civil code regulation effective since 1 January 2014 is a result of eleven years of work of the recodification committee of the
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over Czech law in some areas. Recently, a brand new Criminal Code entered into force in 2010, and the Civil Code followed in 2014.
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are divided into branches, among them civil, criminal, administrative, procedural and labour law, and systematically codified.
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The Constitution has been seriously modified in February 2012, introducing a controversial popular vote of the
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and defined socialist, rather than democratic, character of the state, and introduced the leading role of the
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has been enacted hastily, establishing the republic with its president and temporary parliament. The
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succeeded it, inspired by western democratic constitutions, and, controversially, postulating the
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Constitutional Act No. 347/1997 Coll. on the Creation of Higher Territorial Self-Governing Units
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Act No. 418/2011 Coll., on Criminal Liability of Legal Persons and the Proceedings against Them
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The system of law and justice in the Czech Republic has been in constant development since the
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Resolution No. 2/1993 Coll. incorporating Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms
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The history of Czechoslovak constitutionality starts with the formation of independent
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Official online version of Collection of Law and Collection of International Treaties
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Acts of parliament and other legal regulations enter into force on the day they are
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Prague: Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention, 2011. Print. Sources.
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The Constitution of the Czech Republic as published in the Collection of Laws
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Constitutional Act No. 1/1993 Coll. the Constitution of the Czech Republic
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Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
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is regulated mainly, though not only, by the Criminal Code Act 2009 (
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Written law is the basis of the legal order, and the most important
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Following in the tracks of their enlightenment predecessors, the
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Administrative Justice in Europe – Report for the Czech Republic
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Major areas of Czech law are codified in a systematic manner.
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belongs to the Germanic branch of continental legal culture (
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Hello Czech Republic (Czech Republic - The Official Website)
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Most important statutes in the criminal justice field are:
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Act No. 500/2004 Coll. the Administrative Procedure Code
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Sources of Czech law are (in this hierarchical order):
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Ministerstvo spravedlnosti ÄŚR, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2012.
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Act No. 218/2003 Coll., on Juvenile Criminal Justice
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Act No. 141/1961 Coll., the Criminal Procedure Code
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international treaties ratified by the Parliament (
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" 1273:, and entered into force in 1993. 1267:Constitution of the Czech Republic 1073:criminal liability of corporations 1067:Act No. 200/1990 on Contraventions 946:Statutes adopted by the Parliament 838:Constitution of the Czech Republic 812:The constitution can be viewed as 797:), together they are known as the 619:Constitution of the Czech Republic 25: 1785:International Labour Organization 1305:Zákon ÄŤ. 500/2004 Sb. správnĂ­ řád 1247:Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1215:Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920 1192:Constitutio criminalis Theresiana 1140:Constitutio Criminalis Theresiana 1044:). 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Petr Fiala
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