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22. 02. 2019

Provability difficulties of counterclaims do not always exclude them from offsetting by the defendant

Since the judicial enforcement of practically certain claims is often delayed by the defendants’ opportunistic set-off objections, the general prohibition of uncertain or indeterminate claims to be set off has been incorporated into the Czech Civil Code. However, the interpretation of the relevant provision of the Civil Code by courts has not gotten settled yet. …

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21. 02. 2019

Our team was strengthened by Barbora Cetkovská

PEYTON legal team was strengthened by Barbora Cetkovská, who will be working as a junior lawyer. Bára has experience from law firms and also as a corporate lawyer from a company focusing on innovation of mobility services, which is a part of an international automobile concern. Bára graduated from the Faculty of Law of the …

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15. 02. 2019

Anti-falsification regulation of medicinal products and changes it brings

A major breakthrough in the context of the newly introduced anti-falsification regulation in the field of pharmaceuticals has already taken place. On 9 February 2019, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/161 of 2 October 2015 supplementing Directive 2001/83/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council by laying down detailed rules for the safety features appearing …

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24. 01. 2019

Business corporations act amendment

The extensive amendment of the Act No. 90/2012 Coll., on Commercial Companies and Cooperatives (Business Corporations Act) (“Business Corporations Act“), is now in the legislative process. The amendment of Business Corporations Act reflects primarily legal opinions of professional public. The most fundamental changes are in particular changes regarding: the conception of monistic system of internal …

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