The Power to Moderate in the Czech Administrative Justice

The subject of my qualification thesis is based on the institute of moderation right of courts, with its application areas including, apart from other branches of private law (such as civil justice) and public law (such as criminal justice), the area of administrative justice. The qualification thesis consists of eight parts. Part one defines general principles of the mentioned moderation right of courts, with a focus on the right of access to court in administrative justice, and on Article 6 of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as the theoretical basis of moderation right of courts. The first part continues with a consideration of the scope and limits of court powers when they review decisions on administrative penalties and the very essentials of the requirement for proportionality of administrative penalty. Part two begins with an analysis of the moderation notion and goes on to explain the purpose proper and the system of the moderation right of courts in administrative justice, with a consideration on how this purpose is seen by administrative courts themselves. Part three describes the individual legislatively defined conditions under which the moderation right may be applied by administrative courts, including a critical analysis of these conditions...