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Supreme Court of the Czech Republic

Nejvyšší soud

Reviewed· 2026-08-02Brno

Decides extraordinary appeals (dovolání) in civil and criminal matters and publishes selected decisions in its Collection to unify case law. It applies the 2014 Civil Code, whose recodification generated a substantial body of new interpretation.

How the court is constituted

Tier
supreme
Court type
Court of extraordinary appeal
Jurisdiction
Czechia — civil and criminal extraordinary appeals
Seat
Brno
Composition
Judges in civil-commercial and criminal divisions under a President appointed by the President of the Republic.
Languages
Czech

Where an appeal goes next

Constitutional complaint to the Constitutional Court.

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