MVD021K Proceedings before the Constitutional Court

Faculty of Law
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc. (seminar tutor)
Ing. Mgr. Jaroslav Benák, Ph.D. (assistant)
JUDr. Soňa Matochová, Ph.D., LL.M. (assistant)
Guaranteed by
prof. JUDr. Jan Filip, CSc.
Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Andrea Špačková, DiS.
Supplier department: Department of Constitutional Law and Political Science – Faculty of Law
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MVD021K/01: Mon 2. 3. to Fri 22. 5. Wed 15:05–16:35 302, J. Benák, J. Filip
MVD021K/02: No timetable has been entered into IS. J. Benák
Prerequisites (in Czech)
MP310Zk Constitutional Law II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the fundamental rules of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court and their practical application using examples of the basic precedents. The task of the students will be home work with the specified decisions and legislation in order to by prepared for submitting proposals in the basic types of proceedings (particularly in the field of control of the constitutionality of the legislation and the constitutional complaint) and to be acquaint with the rules of procedure, preparation of the documents and of arguing of the parties in trial by court.
Syllabus
  • 1 . Organisational and procedural nature of the Constitutional Court Act 1993 in comparison to the other procedural rules (codes of administrative, civil and criminal procedure, the Courts and Judges Act 2002). 2 . The general, special, and subsidiary nature of the procedural rules. The posibility to use an analogy. Practical examples. 3 . Participants in the proceedings before the Constitutional Court. General and special regulation. The particularities of the entry in the proceedings in different types of proceedings. Amici curiae. Issues of representation of particular types of proceedings. 4 . Requirements on content and format of submissions to the Constitutional Court. Practical examples of shortcomings of proposals. Proposal for initiation of the proceedings, its systematics, petit. Preparation of the submission on the practical example. 5 . Conditions of the proceedings before the Constitutional Court. An analysis of the case-law to § 41 and § 43 of the Act on the Constitutional Court. Constesting of impartiality and the exclusion of the judge. 6 . Proceedings before the Constitutional Court. An analysis of the practical case on the basis of attendance on concrete proceedings). 7. Forms of decisions of the Constitutional Court. The award, resolution, opinion. The pass, the refusal and rejection of the proposal a limine fori. Termination of the proceeding. The effects of the decision. Enforceability and its suspension. Change of the legal opinion and its consequences. 8. Proposal for renewal of proceedings before the Constitutional Court. Analysis of practical cases. 9 . Taking of evidence, compensation of costs in the proceedings before the Constitutional Court. 10 . An application for annulment of the law. 11 . An application for annulment of municipality by-law. 12 . Submitting of a constitutional complaint.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ŠIMÍČEK, Vojtěch, Jan FILIP, Pavel MOLEK, Lenka BAHÝĽOVÁ, Milan PODHRÁZKÝ, Radovan SUCHÁNEK and Ladislav VYHNÁNEK. Ústava České republiky - Komentář (The Constitution of the Czech Republic - A Commentary). Praha: Linde Praha, 2010, 1536 pp. ISBN 978-80-7201-814-7. info
  • FILIP, Jan, Pavel HOLLÄNDER and Vojtěch ŠIMÍČEK. Zákon o Ústavním soudu : komentář. (Constitutional Court Act : commentary). 2nd ed. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2007, 896 pp. Beckova edice Komentované zákony. ISBN 978-80-7179-599-5. info
  • Zákon o Ústavním soudu s komentářem. Edited by Eliška Wagnerová. 1. vyd. Praha: ASPI, 2007, x, 624. ISBN 9788073573058. info
Teaching methods
Introductory explanation, linked class discussion, domestic preparation for the analysis of the scheduled cases according to the literature
Assessment methods
colloquium, the written resolution of an specified case and its verbal plea
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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