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1 Minimum age of criminal responsibility in English and Czech law - comparative study Abstract The subject of the rigorous thesis is criminal responsibility of juveniles, specifically the minimum age of criminal responsibility and its legal regulation in legal orders of selected countries - England and Wales on the one side and Czech republic on the other side. The minimum age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales which are both countries of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and typical representatives of Common Law legal system is 10 years old. The legal regulation in Czech republic as a representative of Continental Law legal system sets the age of criminal responsibility at the moment of completion of 15 years. The main aim of this thesis is to provide a reader with a comprehensive awareness of the legal regulation concerning the minimum age of criminal responsibility in surveyed countries and to compare these two different regulations via the method of comparative jurisprudence. First two chapters define the subject of this thesis from theoretical and methodological point of view. Theoretical determination provides a reader with elementary introduction of the main issue and includes also the list of fundamental legislation used in the following text of this thesis....