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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