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In its landmark Urgenda judgment of 20 December 2019 the Dutch Supreme Court confirmed the lower courts’ order compelling the State of the Netherlands to limit the joint volume of Dutch annual greenhouse gas emissions ...

In this article the author deals with the problematics of the “federal common law of crimes” in the period since the foundation of the American statehood till the end of the 18th century whereas he claims that the ex...

The development of private law in the last two decades has been marked by an increase in actions for compensation for non-pecuniary damage to health and life. Claimants’ demands for the amount of compensation also grew...

The article deals with case management in civil litigation and its implications for the Czech model civil litigation for pecuniary claims. After the introduction, it provides an overview of the principles of case managem...

Given the unique position of credit institutions and their systemic importance for the financial stability, their resolution has been traditionally entrusted to supervisory authorities rather than courts. As a result, cr...

The study examines the development of Czechoslovak military justice after 1945. The subject of the analysis is mainly the organisational structure of military prosecutors’ offices and courts. The text discusses the iss...

The authors discuss the fragmented practice of insolvency courts in the issue of advances on insolvency administrators’ remuneration for the review of applications for claims after the adoption of the so-called transpo...

The contribution deals with the issue of ex officio control of unfair contract terms by courts, which follows from Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts and from the d...

This paper focuses on a significant phenomenon that existed mainly in the late 1950s and 1960s – the comrades’ courts. In the introduction, this social organisation is mentioned in Czechoslovakia, but then the paper ...

The protection of personality and the legal aspects of maintaining professional secrecy have a complicated history of development in many countries of the world. The evolvement of privacy rights and the protection of pro...

The paper deals with the so-called public-law consents in the regime of the Building Act, as simplified forms of activity, resp. decision-making, building offices. It points out the development of this amendment since it...

This paper deals with changes that have taken place in the organisation of state administration from the perspective of administrative justice and its local jurisdiction. In order to do so, the paper answers the basic qu...

The aim of the article is to point out the growing phenomenon of the abuse of public subjective rights and freedoms by private persons in public administration. It analyzes the legal nature of the abuse of rights and fre...