The institute of settlement in the criminal proceedings de lege ferenda in connection with principles of the Czech criminal procedure
Abstract
This paper focuses on the institute of settlement in connection with the principle of promptness of a criminal procedure. The institute of settlement is one of the alternative ways of resolving criminal cases introduced to the Czech criminal procedure during 1990s as a part of strengthening restorative nature of Czech criminal law, faster and less formal, thus more effective prosecuting of the less serious crimes.
As this institute is, however, used rather rarely, besides other things because of the time difficulty of the proceeding, this paper analyses related problems and proposes some of de lege ferenda modifications.