Extreme Emergency during Provision of Health Services

The work discusses the institute of extreme emergency in the context of the provision of health services. Its goal is to find out whether the current legal regulation of extreme emergency is sufficient for the field of health law from a practical point of view. The work analyses individual conditions of extreme emergency from the point of view of civil law. For the better understanding, it includes frequent comparisons with other legal fields. In several places, there is a comparison with foreign legislation. The work also provides an insight into the circumstances excluding illegality, which are unknown for the Czech legal system. The work is divided into four chapters. The first of them deals with the concept of illegality and the connection between civil law and criminal law regulations of circumstances excluding illegality. The second chapter presents the role of extreme emergency in the legal system. It focuses on the state of emergency in the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine, on the obligation to compensate for damage caused in an extreme emergency and on the apparent (putative) extreme emergency. For a closer understanding and determination of the correct approach of the courts to the extreme emergency, it analyses the decisions of the administrative courts in which health service..