BZ403K Basics of Substantive Criminal Law and Procedural Criminal Law I

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Eva Brucknerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. David Čep, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Jaroslav Fenyk, Ph.D., DSc., Univ. Priv. Prof. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Marek Fryšták, Ph.D. (lecturer)
JUDr. Milana Hrušáková, Ph.D., LL.M. (lecturer)
prof. JUDr. Věra Kalvodová, Dr. (lecturer)
doc. JUDr. Josef Kuchta, CSc. (lecturer)
JUDr. Jan Provazník, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Jan Provazník, Ph.D.
Department of Criminal Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Jana Dopitová
Supplier department: Department of Criminal Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites (in Czech)
!OBOR(PR) && !OBOR(PR01) && !PROGRAM(N-VS) && !OBOR(TPTSP05) && !OBOR(CZVTPTSP06) && !OBOR(VYJU05) && !OBOR(CZVVYJU06)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
Main objectives can be summarized as follows: to acquire of the basic knowledges about institutes of the general part of criminal substantive law;
to acquire of the basic knowledges about institutes of the general part of criminal process law. At the end of the course students should be able to: understand and explain basic concepts of criminal substantive law and process law; create a text on the criminal law topic; interpret and use the basic concepts of the both criminal law departments;
Learning outcomes
Upon completition of the course, the students will be able to: - understand the purpouse of criminal law as a legal field - place criminal law properly in the legal system - identify basic sources of criminal law's legal regulation - understand basic principles of criminal law and their meaning - understand basic concepts and legal institutes of both substantive and procedural criminal law - orientate themselves in the matter of general part of substantive and procedural part of criminal law and identify informational and legal sources, where they might find more detailed questions
Syllabus
  • Basic concepts: concept, functions and basic principles of criminal substantive law (adults and juveniles); fundaments of criminal liability of legal entities.
  • Scope of applicability of criminal laws
  • Fundamentals of criminal responsibility.
  • The legal consequnces of the fundamentals of criminal responsibility (punishments, protective measures, measures for juveniles).
  • Concept, functions and basic principles of criminal process law / criminal procedure (adults, juveniles and legal entities).
  • Subjects of criminal proceedings
  • Procedural acts, mesures securing persons and things in criminal proceedings, decisions in criminal proceedings
  • Evidence in criminal proceedings, division of evidence, evidence proceedings
Literature
    required literature
  • ŽATECKÁ, Eva. Trestní právo hmotné a procesní – Obecná část. Multimediální učební text. 1. dot. 4. dopl. a akt. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2017, 172 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-7955-7. info
Teaching methods
Lectures: on the basic of PP presentations
Assessment methods
Colloquium.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hod. přednášek za semestr / 12 hrs of lectures per semester.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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