Plea bargaining Abstract This thesis deals with plea bargain in Czech legal system. Primary goal of this thesis is to analyse plea bargain in the Czech Republic de lege lata and to evaluate potential possibilities de lege ferenda. This thesis examines current problems of plea bargain as a legal instrument and it also evaluates in detail practical application of plea bargaining in Czech criminal procedure. Particural attention is dedicated to Act no. 333/2020 Coll., which significantly widened the use of plea bargain to felonies, abolished compulsory defence and also established possibility of negotiation plea bargain in court hearing. Act no. 333/2020 Coll., also implemented entirely new legal instrument called Declaration of guilt, which i...