Appeals in civil proceedings

a klíčová slova v anglickém jazyce Title of rigorous thesis: Appellate review in civil procedure Abstract The rigorosum thesis focuses on the extraordinary remedy of "appellate review" (in Czech: dovolání), as stipulated in Act No. 99/1963 Coll., the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended. The remedy is extraordinary in the sense that it allows to contest a final and enforceable court decision. The thesis is divided into seven chapters. The first two chapters focus on the general principles of civil procedure, appellate systems, types of remedies and the history of the concept of appellate review. The second chapter also includes a passage presenting the planned recodification of civil procedure based on the substantive intent of the Civil Procedure Rules drafted in 2017. The third chapter is the core of the thesis and contains, in particular, the conditions for admissibility of appellate review and the requisites of an application for appellate review. The chapter describes who can lodge an application for appellate review, and specifies the place and deadline for filing the application. Two autonomous requisites are essential for an appellate review and the relevant proceedings: (a) definition of the conditions for admissibility of appellate review; and (b) specification of the grounds for appellate..