N_TPRP Criminal business risk

University of Finance and Administration
Summer 2025
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Eduard Bruna, Ph.D.
Department of Law – Departments – University of Finance and Administration
Contact Person: Tereza Švestáková
Prerequisites
This subject has no prerequisites.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
Acquisition of legal bases of business activity in connection with the danger of committing crimes in this area. Entrepreneurial activity as a part of activity in society, where the criminal activity of offenders is either based on their position within the business or criminal activity focused on the business sphere from the outside. Getting acquainted with this issue for selected crimes listed in a special part of the Criminal Code, detailed acquaintance with aspects of criminal liability of natural and legal persons, the development of crime in the field of business activities, the development of court decision-making practice in this area.
Learning outcomes
Successful passing of the exam from the subject.
Syllabus
  • 1) Definition of business activities from the point of view of criminal law. According to the doctrine and from the point of view of the relevant case law of the General Courts, the ECtHR and also the Constitutional Court. 2) Legal regulation representing the definition of the objective side of selected criminal offenses in this area. 3) Impacts of violation of blanket reference legal norms in business activities. Illegal activity forming the so-called foreground of criminal activity within business. Possibilities of preventive action. 4) Aspects of criminal liability of legal persons 5) Aspects of criminal liability of natural persons. 6) Crimes against property. 7) Economic crimes 8) Other crimes in connection with business activities 9) Criminal proceedings in matters of crimes in the business area. The issue of damages. Status of stakeholders. 10) Legalization of proceeds of crime.
Literature
    required literature
  • Jelínek, J.: Trestní odpovědnost právnických osob v české republice. Problémy a perspektivy.
  • JELÍNEK, J. Trestní právo hmotné. Leges, 6. aktualizované vydání 2017, ISBN 978-80-7502-236-3.
  • Trestní zákoník, trestní řád, zákon o trestní odpovědnosti právnických osob a o řízení proti nim, zákon o legalizaci výnosů z trestné činnosti
  • Chmelík, Bruna: Hospodářská a ekonomická trestná činnost, EUPRESS 2015
  • JELÍNEK, J. a kol. Trestní právo procesní. Praha: Leges, 2018. ISBN 978-80-7502-278-3.
  • VESECKÁ, Renata. Příklady z trestního práva hmotného a procesního (Examples from the substantive criminal law and the criminal procedural law). Praha: VŠFS, 2019. info
    recommended literature
  • BRUNA, Eduard. Trestní řád: § 302 až § 471. In Jiří Jelínek. Trestní zákoník a trestní řád s poznámkami a judikaturou. 7. vyd. Praha: Leges, 2017. s. 1127- 1230, 104 s. ISBN 978-80-7502-230-1.
Teaching methods
Teaching takes the form of lectures.
Assessment methods
The course ends with a credit test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hodin KS/semestr.
The course is also listed under the following terms Summer 2017, Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023, Summer 2024.
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