An Injured Person and a Victim in Criminal Proceedings

The main aim of my thesis is to present an analysis of the effective legislation of the victim and the victim of the crime, its evaluation, finding weaknesses and outline plans de lege ferenda aspects. The doctoral thesis is divided into four compact sections. In the first section my focus is on the procedural status of the victims as parties to the criminal proceedings, next is presented the brief historical development of its rules, definitions and certain rights (the right to be informed, the right to protection and the right to be a party to criminal proceedings). The analysis of the procedural status is discussed in relation with the new legislation on crime victims. This amendment brought quite large changes of the Criminal Procedure Code as well. The focus here is also on the rights of the victims who are entitled to compensation. Then I comprehensively describe the possible ways how the victims of the criminal proceedings may claim the indemnity. In the last chapter of this section I did not forget to outline some of the shortcomings of the current legislation and some proposals of the de lege ferenda aspects. The second section of the thesis deals with the difference between the damaged party and the victim. It summarizes the most important milestones in the history of the legislation on..