Publication details
Dopravní nehody v judikatuře českých soudů
| Title in English | Road Traffic Accidents in the Case Law of Czech Courts |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Trestnoprávné súvislosti ochrany života a zdravia. Zborník príspevkov z medzinárodnej vedeckej konferencie |
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| Keywords | causal nexus; culpability; traffic accidents; injury; death |
| Description | This paper focuses on the topic of Czech courts’ recent case law on causation in traffic accidents-related crimes. In its first part, it presents a few necessary theoretical foundations of causation in the Czech criminal law, based on a but for doctrine with several correctives, then it proceeds to an introduction of a landmark decision of the grand senate of the criminal college of the Czech Supreme court which deals mainly with the issue of applicability of the theory of gradation in cases where illegal acting of both participants of the accident was a but for condition to it. An analysis of this decision is conducted subsequently and after that the paper continues to an analysis of transferability of the findings of the said decision into a broader context. |
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