System of courts - assignment
System of courts
The system of ordinary courts is made up of District, Regional, High courts and the Supreme Court (Art. 91 (1) CCR). The system of general (civil and criminal) judiciary is supplemented by administrative and constitutional judiciary. Specialized administrative chambers have been constituted at regional courts. The chambers perform judiciary in public administrative matters that are frequent and do not require great specialisation. Specialized administrative matters are ruled on by the Supreme Administrative Court. The Constitutional Court has the authority to protect constitutionality (Art. 83 CCR).
Civil and criminal courts share the same judicial structure. Together, they form the courts of general jurisdiction (obecné soudnictví). They are competent in all types of disputes with the exception of those expressly reserved for the administrative courts or the Constitutional Court.
The structure of the ordinary courts is as follows:
- Supreme Court located in Brno;
- 2 High Courts ( one located in Prague with jurisdiction over Bohemia and the other seated in Olomouc with jurisdiction over Moravia);
- 8 Regional courts (the regional court in the capital is called Metropolitan Court in Prague (Art. 11 Judges Act 2002);
- 86 District courts ( the district court in the district Brno is called City Court, Art. 12 Judges Act 2002).
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Compulsory reading:
Voluntary reading:
The System of Courts in the Czech Republic - diagram
Laws:
Czech Constitution