A professional lawyer who was appointed to serve as a judge by the President of the Czech Republic.

A lawyer who was appointed to serve as a public prosecutor by the Minister of Justice. Public prosecutor has a number of roles within the stages of criminal proceedings, he supervises preliminary criminal proceedings, brings charges against the perpetrator of criminal offences and represents the prosecution at court in particular.

Perpetrator is the person who committed a criminal offence. They may be called differently at individual stages of criminal proceedings, yet this is still the same person.

The perpetrator of a criminal offence has the right to be represented during the criminal proceedings by a solicitor, i.e. professional lawyer.

Crime victim is also referred to as the injured party under the Czech Criminal Law and they are entitled to a number of rights during the criminal proceedings.

(representative of the injured in criminal proceedings)

Witness is a person who had the opportunity to perceive the circumstances of the committed criminal offence, in some cases criminal offence was committed on them directly

Crime victim has the right to be accompanied by a confidant to acts of criminal proceedings and to provide explanation.