Crimes of rape and sexual coercion - comparison of legislation in the Czech Republic and Republic of Ireland

Rape and Sexual assault - legal comparsion of offences in the Czech Republic and the Republic of Ireland Summary The diploma thesis is comparsion of sexual offences, in particular rape and sexual assault, which are closely scrutinized from a two different legal systems - czech and irish criminal law. The aim of the thesis is to analyze each offence and to find potentionally applicable de lege ferenda solutions for the czech criminal law. It shall be noted that while czech criminal law is mainly to be found in a single piece of legislation known as Code No. 40/2009, the Criminal Law Act. Irish criminal law on the other hand not only has a separate statutory legislation but also and mainly common law doctrine. The thesis is composed of eight chapters. First chapter outlines brief history and characterises sexual offence of rape in the czech criminal code. Second chapter, characterises the offence of rape from the common law doctrine and also statutory legislation in the irish legal system. Third chapter is focused on comparison of the offence of rape, and points out the main differences between czech and irish criminal law. Fourth, fifth and sixth chapter likewise does so with the offence of sexual assault. Seventh and eight chapter describes importaint proceedural institutes, which are related to sexual..