Granting or withdrawing consent concerning criminal proceedings – private infringement of the rules of law

Abstract

In the article the author deals with the institute of consent of the injured person, which undoubtedly represents a certain private aspect concerning criminal proceedings in the Slovak Republic. In the introduction, the author deals with some of the criminal-law context of the institute. Subsequently, through the historical legal aspects of the injured person's consent to criminal prosecution, the author moves to the substantive and procedural conditions for its application, focusing mainly on legislative, application and interpretation problems brought by legal practice. Consequently, possible de lege ferenda solutions are also offered.