Evidence in civil proceedings

Résumé I chose the topic of evidence in civil legal proceedings as I regard the matter not only as very interesting, but also as very significant from the viewpoint of further specialist work. The production of evidence in civil procedural law includes not only activities by the parties when exercising their subjective rights, but also activities by a court, whose task is to ensure just protection of the rights and legitimate interests of the parties. As evidence in civil legal proceedings is a markedly wide-ranging issue, in this work I have limited myself to an explanation of the basic institutions of evidence in civil legal proceedings and have paid more attention to current questions concerning selected means of evidence, the question of imposing the duty to pay an advance on the costs of evidence in the form of an expert report and the question of the production of evidence through questioning of a minor. In chapter one I attempted an analysis of the term evidence and a specification of the subject of evidence from the viewpoint of its positive and negative definition, i.e., in brief what is and what is not the subject of evidence. I also briefly mentioned the issue of community law in connection with the Czech Republic's membership of the European Union. In this chapter it was also necessary to..