Summary hearing of administrative delicts

This thesis deals with the abbreviated forms of administrative misdemeanour procedure (or summary procedures), which can also be referred to as a special type of administrative proceedings by literature. These proceedings are known as ticket procedure and order procedure. These traditional legal concepts of administrative law were already included in the legal system of Austria-Hungary and later in the legal system of Czechoslovakia. One of the main reasons for regulation of ticket procedure was attempt to affect the offender immediately after the commitment of misdemeanour and thus mitigate the pressure on the respective administrative body. On the other hand, the purpose of the order procedure is to simplify the proceedings regarding offences in cases, where there is no dubiety about the offender. For these reasons, the evidence is not presented and proving of facts and law is absent from both mentioned proceedings. The main legal regulation is contained in the Misdemeanours Act. The Administrative Procedure Code applies subsidiarily. However, other individual subject-matters of misdemeanours possibly fulfilled by offenders are present in special laws, which allow to deal with the offences in ticket and order procedure as well. This thesis is divided into 6 chapters, of which the first one deals..