The protection of life and health in the case-law of Slovak courts
1. Introduction
The protection of life and health is included in the first chapter of the special part of the Slovak Criminal Code. Through such classification, the legislature points out the gravity of offences against life and health. Committing one of these offences constitutes an infringement of the fundamental human rights and freedoms of the individual (Ivor, Polák, Záhora, 2016, p. 42). In our research of 75 cases, we mainly focused on violent crimes which were decided by the courts in two parts of the Slovak Republic, specifically in the Trenčín and Prešov regions.