Decisions on the award and amount of costs in civil proceedings Abstract This thesis deals with the issue of costs of civil proceedings. The scheme of the thesis follows the scheme of the Code of Civil Procedure and is supplemented by references to judicature, in particular the Constitutional Court's judicature. It deals almost exclusively with costs of proceedings at the first-instance procedure. The thesis in its introduction highlights the importance of the issue of costs of proceedings and the significant impact of the cost statement on the individual parties involved. It sets out the basic distribution of costs for general and special costs and lists their basic functions, ie the preventive and sanctioning function. The introduction al...