This article aims to examine the de lege lata procedural regulation, to assess to what extent it is effective in enforcing claims of weaker litigants and whether there are other legal instruments that could enrich the Czech legal order. Since asymmetrical relationships are very often characterised by the fact that a larger number of affected persons (consumers, employees, victims of discrimination or environmental accidents) are on the side of the weaker party, attention will be focused, in this context in particular, on the institution of collective procedural protection, which can take various forms of so-called collective proceedings.