The human rights and fundamental freedoms have experienced quite a dramatic development in the Czech Republic. During the short period of existence of the First Republic, the first joint state of the Czechs and Slovaks, a basis for the theory of human rights and their protection was formed and subsequently, after the fall of communism in 1989, was reincorporated into the Czech legal system. Almost immediately after the collapse of the communist regime, the Czech Parliament adopted a new Constitution, a Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a number of laws regulating the area of human rights and fundamental freedoms. The legislator not only « proclaimed » individual human rights and freedoms but also recreated a system of their protection. Hum...