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.

The police is a body whose assignment includes (among others) investigation of individual criminal offences the police may learn about, not only those that were reported to the police but also those committed criminal offences the police learns about from its own sources.

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

Expert witness is a person, who has not perceived the circumstances of the committed criminal offence with their own senses, but they are an expert in the specific field, on which they are to comment in relation to the criminal offence.

Interpreter is a person who interprets during criminal proceedings, or translates documents for persons who speak other language/s than

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Court officer ensures the administrative operations of the court. Head of office is a court officer with lower education level whose responsibility is to handle individual files and they also perform other tasks such as dispatching postal items, keeping transcripts from the hearings etc.

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