Kategorie: Procedural Law
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 …
Read moreAmendments to the Civil Procedure Code: reduction of costs of proceedings and the extension of the institution of the fiction of delivery
Without much publicity, with effect from 1 July 2024, Act No. 99/1963 Coll., the Civil Procedure Code i.e. the legal regulation governing civil court proceedings, has been amended, inter alia, in provisions that do not directly concern the concurrently adopted Act No. 179/2024 Coll., on Civil Collective Proceedings. The amendments made by Act No 180/2024 …
Read moreCollective Action Lawsuits Have Passed the Chamber of Deputies
On 10 April 2024, the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic approved the Civil Collective Proceedings Draft Law, which will allow consumers and minor entrepreneurs to pursue their claims in court together through a collective action. In this article, we will focus on the concept and basic principles of collective proceedings …
Read moreLimitation of a claim for payment of an invoice
When does the limitation period start to run about a claim for payment of an invoice for goods or services supplied? Until now, the prevailing view has been that the subjective three-year limitation period, within which an action for payment of an invoice owed was required to be brought for the claim not to be …
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