Efficient regulatory mechanisms that induce innovation, co-operation and deter competition law infringements have recently been the subject of growing attention. Competition is essential to the innovation process which in general terms enables entrepreneurship. But so too is co-operation between...

Efficient regulatory mechanisms that induce innovation, co-operation and deter competition law infringements have recently been the subject of growing attention. Competition is essential to the innovation process which in general terms enables entrepreneurship. But so too is co-operation between...

In an attempt to define cybercrime, an analysis of the notion of cybercrime is carried out in this study, being presented its characteristics, which make it different from the traditional crimes. Also, an analysis of the main classifications of crimes committed in cyberspace as well as the...

We consider the choice to privatize the provision of a public good in a hierarchical model with three layers: a Central Government, a decentralized agency and a (private or public) manager. In a good governance regime the privatization can be devolved upon the decentralized agency while it...

There exist evidence that asymmetrical information do exist between litigants: not in a way supporting Bebchuk (1984)’s assumption that defendants’ degree of fault is a private information, but more likely, as a result of parties’ predictive power of the outcome at trial (Osborne, 1999)....

The paper provides the analysis of the current status of education of economic and property crimes in the tax and accounting in the context of secondary education. Monitoring is carried out on the basis of an analysis framework educational programs and questionnaires. The paper is the...

This paper deals with professional liability of auditors seen from the perspective of criminal law of the Czech Republic. The introductory part discusses the essentials of criminal liability, analyses the term “criminal act” and other issues, particularly “fault”: not only from the...

This paper deals with auditor’s and tax advisor’s duty of confidentiality. In the first part I define the auditor’s duty of confidentiality, also in the context of legal regulation development concerning the auditor’s profession. I go on to discuss aspects of breach of the duty to...

This paper deals with detailed analysis of sanctions imposed in the Czech Republic for unlawful conduct concerning accounting provided for in Act No. 563/1991 Coll., on Accounting, as amended. I analyze the difference between an infraction and an administrative offence including implications for...

Even though the right to lodge a petition with the European Parliament has not been codified at primary law level until the Treaty of Maastricht and its significance has been highlighed by its incorporation in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, its origins go back to the 1950s. Out of twenty...