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05. 09. 2024

Flexible amendment to the Labour Code

The year 2024 could be described in an employment law context as the “year of amendments”. There are countless amendments that have come into force, been adopted or are currently being discussed in the legislative process in the employment law area in this year. Following our previous article on the so-called transposition amendment to the …

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29. 08. 2024

Kateřina Vyšínová – new junior lawyer of PEYTON legal

In May, our team welcomed a new junior lawyer, Kateřina Vyšínová. Kateřina graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague. Throughout her career so far, she has worked in several prestigious law firms in Prague, gaining valuable experience, particularly in labor law and data protection. Outside of her legal work, she is …

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22. 08. 2024

Changes in divorce procedure: simplification and new institutes

In the autumn of 2023, the Ministry of Justice introduced a long-awaited amendment to Act No. 89/2012 Coll., the Civil Code (hereinafter the “CC“), together with amendments to other, mainly procedural regulations. This forthcoming amendment (hereinafter the “Amendment“) aims to speed up, streamline, and make cheaper the so-called uncontested divorce procedure. The Amendment has already …

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15. 08. 2024

Reservation of machine ownership – generally and practically

The reservation of separate ownership of machinery and other equipment is one of the lesser-known institutes of the Civil Code[1] (hereinafter referred to as “CC”). This legal instrument breaks the so-called superficies principle, which states that buildings and everything that is firmly connected to the land, such as objects embedded in the ground or attached …

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