Administrative delicts committed by legal entities

Topic of my diploma thesis is The Administrative punishment of legal persons. Lability of legal entities is considered to be very actual and controversial at the present time not only in the Czech republic, in connection with criminal law refom, but in the whole Europe. The solution of problematic question of effective sentencing legal persons and detering them from other illegal activities, has been a frequent issue of political profesional a nonspecialists discussion during the last ten years. This thesis describes czech system of public liability of legal entities, which is suffering from numerous imperfections. In the first chapter I define and specify administrative punishment and its basic principles, focusing on principle of humanity, principle of legality in its four forms (nulla crimen sine lege stricta, scripta, certa, praevia) and principle of subsidiarity of criminal repression. The following chapter is focused on administrative liability of legal person. The theory of legal persons as a mere fictions is obsolete and they are considered to be real and self-dependent legal subjects with potency to act. Unfortunatelly, very often they act unlawfully. The consequences of this conduct may often be huge and very difficult to restore. In this chapter I define legal entity, using civil and..