The role of public prosecutor in the insolvency proceedings

- 1 - The role of public prosecutor in the insolvency proceedings Abstract The activity of public prosecution is exclusively associated with the criminal proceedings. Therefore, the fact that it also has a very important non-criminal scope of authority is oftentimes forgotten. The primary focus of this thesis is to uncover such second part of its authority, particularly with respect to the insolvency proceedings. Due to the fact that the position of public prosecution has not yet been properly clarified, cases in real life occur, in which even parties to the proceedings themselves question, whether the public prosecution being a party to the respective insolvency proceeding can be deemed as beneficial or whether it was even entitled to exercise some of its procedural acts. The first part of this thesis shall focus on the historic summary of evolution of non-criminal authority of public prosecution (including the insolvency proceedings) and on specification of the basic principle, which is to be pursued or followed during the course of its (entire) activity and which has undergone some evolution throughout the history as well. In the next part, the general legislation shall be discussed which allows the public prosecution to enter into certain proceedings, and even initiate a few of them. Some of the..