Course detail

Personal, Business and Industrial Law

FP-oprPAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course focuses on areas relating to civil law, commercial law and labour law, providing an insight into its general terminology. Also dealt with are the following topics: Participants of legal relations and their representation. Property right. Liability for damages, unjust enrichment. Obligations. Inheritance. Civil Procedural Law. The definition of a businessman/businesswoman and a business activity. Trading company and co-operative. Employment. Rights and duties of an employee and an employer.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

JUDr. Ing. Jan Kopřiva, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Finances (ÚF)

Entry knowledge

Students are expected to have general knowledge of law at secondary school level.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

A course-unit credit is not awarded for this course.
The exam has a written form. It is a test with questions. The classification is in accordance with the rules of the Faculty of Business and Management.

 

Individual study plan:

The exam has a written form. It is a test with questions. The classification is in accordance with the rules of the Faculty of Business and Management.


Attendance at lectures is not compulsory. The course includes lectures only; there are no seminars.

Aims

The main objective of the course is to provide students with a general introduction to and explanation of the disciplines relating to the civil law with an emphasis on business activities. Students will be made familiar with the related terminology and regulations governing this area. They will also learn how to apply the terminology and regulations in relevant practice. For example, they will be able to consider the object of a contract, as well as possible consequences of a legal act.
Students will be made familiar with law terminology and regulations and will be capable of reading of the law.
Students will be able to consider the rights or liabilities with respect to their creation, change, extinction and security, as well as the running of the limitation period, to evaluate the situation and take necessary measures.
Students will be made familiar with contract law discovering the advantages and disadvantages of the contractual agreements. They will have a grasp of the regulations governing the setting-up, classification and liquidation of corporations. Also discussed will be the possibilities of employment contracts and the rights of employees and employers.

Study aids

Legal regulations of the Czech Republic, especially:

Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code

Act No. 99/1963 Coll., Code of Civil Procedure

Act No. 216/1994 Coll., on arbitration proceedings and enforcement of arbitration awards

Act No. 120/2001 Coll., enforcement order

Act No. 182/2006 Coll., Insolvency

Act Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labor Code

Act No. 90/2012 Coll., on business corporations

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Zákon č. 120/2001 Sb., exekuční řád
Zákon č. 182/2006 Sb., insolvenční zákon
Zákon č. 262/2006 Sb., zákoník práce.
Zákon č. 89/2012 Sb., občanský zákoník.
Zákon č. 90/2012 Sb., o obchodních společnostech a družstvech (zákon o obchodních korporacích).
Zákon č. 99/1963 Sb., občanský soudní řád (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme BAK-EP Bachelor's 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
  • Programme BAK-PM Bachelor's 2 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

JUDr. Ing. Jan Kopřiva, Ph.D.

Syllabus

-Basic terms, the theory of law, legal acts, period of limitation, preclusion.
-Civil substantive law - terminology, principles, participants in civil-law relations and their representation.
-Real rights - ownership, joint ownership, property rights to things foreign
- Inheritance Law
- Contractual law - contracts, torts liabilities, obligations or other legal reason
- Civil Procedural Law – powers and jurisdiction of courts, actions, court hearings, evidence, costs, types of judicial decision, legal force and enforceability, proper and extraordinary remedies, enforcement and enforcement proceedings, insolvency proceedings
- Business Corporation - terminology, business register
-Trading companies and co-operatives, liquidation.
-Rules and regulations under the contract governed by the Commercial law.
-Labour law - terminology, participants in labour-law relations and their representation.
-Employment.
-Working time regulations, period of rest, overtime, holiday entitlement, liability of an employer and an employee for damage caused.
-Rights and duties of an employee and an employer.