BVD005K The Legal Status of Experts and Rules of their Profession

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Miroslav Frýdek, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
JUDr. Alena Kliková, Ph.D.
Department of Administrative Studies and Administrative Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Špačková, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Administrative Studies and Administrative Law – Faculty of Law
Prerequisites (in Czech)
!OBOR(PR) && !OBOR(PR01) && !PROGRAM(N-VS)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The current court proceedings, especially criminal proceedings, can no longer do without the participation of an expert and without an expert's report. The latest findings of research, science and technology have brought their immense importance and benefit to all areas of human activity - to the economy, production, trade, transport, health care, but they have also become assistants in authoritative decision-making about the rights and duties of persons or help law enforcement authorities in criminal proceedings. In many cases, expert work influences the length of court proceedings. The course content will focus on statutory and sub-statutory legal regulations (implementing decrees and Instructions of the Minister of Justice) that regulate expert activities, the establishment and termination of the authorization to perform expert activities, criminal and administrative liability of an expert when submitting an expert opinion. The course focuses on practical knowledge of the activities of state administration bodies of expert activity at the level of regional courts and the Ministry of Justice. Students will get acquainted with the different fields of expert activity. As part of the skills component, students will perform the actions of the various bodies of state administration of expert activity, they will assess by example the correctness and timeliness of the submission of an expert opinion, including the assessment of a false, grossly distorted or incomplete expert opinion (administrative or criminal sanctions.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to identify and summarize the important institutes of expert activity; will be able to identify and describe the establishment and termination of the authorization to perform expert activity; will be able to describe the criminal and administrative liability of an expert in the submission of an expert opinion; will be able to assess the correctness and timeliness of the submission of an expert opinion, including the assessment of false, grossly distorted or incomplete expert opinion.
Syllabus
  • Block 1: Statutory and sub-statutory legal regulations governing the performance of expert activities. Establishment and termination of the authorization to carry out expert activities Block 2: Criminal and administrative liability of an expert when submitting an expert report. Activities of state administration bodies of expert activity at the level of regional courts and the Ministry of Justice. Block 3: Propriety and timeliness of expert opinion submission. Resolution of practical cases.
Literature
    required literature
  • Petr Ševčík, Ladislav Ullrich. Znalecké právo. 1. vyd. Praha: Nakladatelství C. H. Beck, s. r. o., 2015. s. VII-IX, 3 s. ISBN 978-80-7400-539-8.
  • KŘÍSTEK, Lukáš. Znalectví. Vyd. 1. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2013, 331 s. ISBN 9788074780424. info
    recommended literature
  • FRYŠTÁK, Marek. Znalecké dokazování v trestním řízení (Expert Evidence in Criminal Proceedings). 1. vyd. Praha: Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2019, 124 pp. Právní monografie. ISBN 978-80-7598-385-5. info
Teaching methods
seminars, discussions, solving examples
Assessment methods
active participation in block teaching, submission of solved cases for block teaching
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 12 hod. přednášek za semestr / 12 hrs of lectures per semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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