Appeals in criminal proceedings

APPEALS IN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS ABSTRACT This thesis tries to describe the legislation of appeals in criminal proceeding in the Czech Republic. The aim is to present information on the historical development of remedies in criminal proceedings, on the basic principles of criminal proceedings, on the recent legislation of appeals in criminal proceedings, then a short comparison of the legislation in Austria and finally to point out to some of its deficiencies and suggest their solutions. The introduction of the thesis gives the basic information on the work itself, its aims and reasons which convinced the author to choose this topic. The first chapter of it is devoted to a short description of the legislation of remedies in history. Then, the basic principles of criminal proceedings and their effects on remedial proceedings are described. The third chapter focuses on the basic classification of remedies in the Czech Republic. The most exhaustive chapter with the analysis of the legislation of appeals follows. The biggest part in it is devoted to the description of remedial proceedings and several institutes are criticized here. Time periods, entitled person, the requirements for the content of an appeal, proceedings before the Court of First Instance, proceedings before Appeal Court and finally proceedings..