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Table 1: Officially Appointed Experts in the Czech Republic
Specialised in expert activities (criminology institute, private expert
Expert institution
institutes, etc.)
Scientific (university, academy of science, research institute, etc.)
with scope of activities different from expert activities – however, in
(legal entity)
difficult cases authorised to carry out expert evaluation mostly for
the purposes of governmental bodies
Individual expert
(physical person)
Qualification
Specialised Preparation prior Appointment
Apinted
by the chief judge of the regional court or by the Minister of Justice
ad hoc
(an expert appointed on occasion by a governmental for one
individual case)
List of experts and the individual expert institutes: http://portal.justice.cz/uvod/justice.aspx
The University of Technology of Brno (www.vutbr.cz) has carried
out the systematic education of experts in road transport and
engineering since 1969; later on, economics was added – valuation
of properties and establishment of claim amount. Since
then, the Institute for Forensic Engineering of the University of
Technology of Brno (www.usi.vutbr.cz) has prepared 566 forensic
specialists who attended 22 postgraduate courses specialised
in road accident analysis. Within the framework of its scientific
activities and per order of the Ministry of Justice, the Institute
developed standards for expert proceedings carried out when
analysing road accidents, valuation of motor vehicles and establishment
of claim damage. The courses are organised by virtue of
the Ministry of Justice and are interdisciplinary in nature. In order
to obtain a special qualification so that the evaluations can be
used for legal purposes, the syllabus also includes selected parts
of jurisdiction, forensic medicine, economics and necessary fields
of technology.
Registered on the list of the
Ministry of Justice, part I
Registered on the list of the
Ministry of Justice, part II
Registered on the list of the
regional court according to the
permanent domicile and in the
central list kept by the Ministry
of Justice
Not listed on the list of experts
Table : Statistics of Expert Activities in the Czech Republic
(year 001 – further detailed statistics of the number of expert evaluations are not available any more)
Department
No.
Total no. of evaluations No. of evaluations per expert per
or
experts
per year in the CR year
Road and urban transport 370 2,863 7.7
Psychiatry 689 26,017 37.8
Valuation of motor vehicles 1,268 48,004 37.9
Valuation of movables 1,804 32,167 17.8
Valuation of immovables 3,573 310,741 87.0
Other fields 4,098 54,886 13.4
Total 11,802 474,678 40.2
At present, there are 8 expert institutes and 9 scientific institutions specialised in road transport and
technical condition of vehicles.
Table : Number of expert evaluations per submitters – CZ total
Evaluation submitter Number Percentage
Governmental bodies 130,212 27.43
Other legal entities and entrepreneurs 138,748 29.23
Citizens 205,718 43.34
Total 474,678 100.00
In order to assure a uniform, highly specialised implementation
of expert activities, the IFE of the BUT also developed expert
standards and university textbooks, such as:
• Bradáč A. and Col.: forensic Engineering
• Bradáč A.: mathematic-Graphic Analysis of the Course and
Cause of a Road Accident
• Vémola A.: Vehicle Repair
• Meduna J.: Applied mechanics
• Bradáč A. and Col.: Experts Guidebook – Road Accident
Analysis
• Nop D.: Traffic Control and Psychology of the Driver
• Krejcir P., Bradáč A.: Expert Standard No. I – motor Vehicle
Valuation
• Bradáč A., Krejcir P., Glier L.: Expert Standard No. II –
Seleted methods of the Assurance of Data Required
for the Technical Analysis of Course and Causes of Road
Accidents
• Bradáč A. and Col.: Expert Standard No. III – Technical
Analysis of the Vehicle-Pedestrian-Collision