Agreement on Guilt and Punishment

The submitted thesis is addressed to the institute of Agreement on Guilt and Punishment which has been adopted to the Czech criminal proceedings by the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code, the Act no. 193/2012 Coll., as effective of 1 September 2012. The inspiration of implementing the new procedural institute was drawn from the Anglo-Saxon institute of "Guilty Plea" which was modified and adapted to the Czech legal environment. The Czech legislator has significantly diverged from fundamental theoretical grounds commonly recognized in other countries abroad while setting up such application conditions which has legitimately risen debates questioning the position of the Agreement on Guilt and Punishment in the Czech legal system itself. The thesis is divided into six chapters. The introductory chapter deals with systematic and ideological foundations of plea bargaining and summarizes the reasons why has been originally Anglo-Saxon institute progressively implemented to many continental legal systems across Europe. Second chapter offers the summary of valuable international case law and presents the plea bargaining process from the view of European Court of Human Rights. Third chapter focuses on legislation related to the Agreement on Guilt and Punishment in other continental law jurisdictions laying..