Case law available on the Internet
Case law is accessible to the public on the website of the Ministry of Justice https://www.justice.cz/, (reference 'Judikatura' (case law)).
Each of the following courts maintains a database of its own case law:
- the Constitutional Court (Ústavní soud)
- the Supreme Court (Nejvyšší soud)
- the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) (Nejvyšší správní soud).
Summaries of all decisions made by the SAC are published, in anonymised form, on the SAC’s website. Some of the SAC's decisions, as well as some made by lower administrative courts and selected by the plenum of all SAC judges according to the importance of the decisions, are treated in greater detail.
Presentation of decisions / headline
Judgments are made available on the websites of the relevant supreme courts.
Formats
Case law is available in html format.
Courts concerned
The following courts are concerned:
- the Constitutional Court (CC database)
- the Supreme Court (SC database)
- the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC database)
Further proceedings
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Supreme Court |
Other courts |
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Is information available as to: appeals? |
No |
Yes (https://www.justice.cz/, reference InfoSoud) |
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whether a case is still in progress? |
No |
Yes (InfoSoud) |
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the result of appeals? |
No |
Yes (InfoSoud) |
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the irrevocability of the decision? |
No |
No |
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on further proceedings before: another domestic court (e.g. Constitutional Court)? the European Court of Justice? the European Court of Human Rights? |
No No No |
No No No |
Publication rules
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at national level? |
at court level? |
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Are there binding rules for the publication of case law |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supreme Court |
Other courts |
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Is full case law published or only a selection? |
Fully anonymised |
Fully anonymised |
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If a selection is done what criteria are applied? |
Protection of personal data |
Legal databases
Name and URL of the database
Portal of the public administration
Is access to the database free of charge?
Yes, access to the database is free of charge.
Brief description of content
The database contains legislation of the Czech Republic in Czech.