Legal liability

Legal liability is a coercive measure applied in the name of the state to a person who committed an offence. Types: disciplinary (reprimand, dismissal), material and civil (compensation of harm), administrative (warning, fine, deprivation of a special right, administrative arrest) and criminal liability (punishments – fine, correctional labour, deprivation of liberty and others). Principles: legality, guilt, fairness, inevitability of punishment and proportionality to the result. Punishment is imposed only by a court verdict, and the death penalty was abolished in 2008 and is prohibited by the current Constitution. Fines are calculated in amounts set by law; the exact sum is updated as laws change, so the current rule should be checked in an official source. The aim of liability is to educate and prevent offences as well as to punish.