The injured party in the criminal procedure

The thesis examines the status of the injured person in criminal proceedings and his most important rights. The thesis analyzes in detail the injured person's approval for prosecution and obstacles which restrain the execution of the injured person's rights. The goal of the thesis is a review of the most important amendments of the Criminal Procedure Code (e.g. Act no. 181/2011 Coll. extending the definition of an injured person and the scope of adhesive procedure). A special chapter of the thesis focuses on crime victims regulated in Act no. 45/2013 Coll. which significantly strengthened the injured person's privileges in the criminal proceedings. The thesis divides the sufferer's privileges pursuant to the stages of the criminal proceeding and further, pursuant to the characteristic, if it is a privilege appertaining to all sufferers, or it is a privilege related to the claim on compensation for damages. The special chapters of the thesis examine the most important rights of the injured person. In the thesis, I also provide the reader with a brief historical excursion to the evolution of the injured person's status and with a comparison of the injured person's status regulation in the Czech Republic with its equivalent in the Slovak Republic. Further, the thesis analyzes the injured person's..