Audiovisual Recording as Evidence in Administrative Proceeding versus the Right to Privacy (from the Point of View of the Czech Republic)

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Audiovisual Recording as Evidence in Administrative Proceeding versus the Right to Privacy (from the Point of View of the Czech Republic)

Original language description

With the development of modern communication and information technologies, Czech public administration bodies are increasingly encountering evidence of an audiovisual nature. Evidence by audiovisual recording is very common, especially in proceedings on administrative offenses, but also in other administrative proceedings. Relatively often in practice there is a situation where such audiovisual recordings (eg camera system recordings, recordings made on a mobile phone, etc.) are made without the consent of the persons concerned, and administrative authorities, or subsequently courts, are forced to assess their applicability in administrative proceedings and then in court proceedings. The basic problem is that such recordings may interfere with the right to privacy guaranteed in particular by Article 8 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, resp similarly Article 7 of the Czech Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. The situation in the Czech Republic is all the more complicated because the performance of audiovisual recordings as evidence is not regulated at all in the Administrative Procedure Code. The subject of this chapter is therefore an analysis of how to resolve in practice this conflict between the right to privacy and the interest of the state and society to punish the perpetrators of the offense. Both the legal regulation and the practice of Czech administrative bodies and courts, as well as the case law of the ECtHR will be taken into account.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

The Right to Privacy

ISBN

978-83-67149-40-2

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

19-30

Publisher name

Wydawnictvo Instytutu Wymiaru Sprawiedliwości

Place of publication

Varšava

Event location

Varšava

Event date

Jun 1, 2022

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

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