Evidence in civil proceedings (Czech-Slovak-German comparison)

The corporate-political changes that occured after the 1989 the initiators of Civil Procedure in the Czech Republic and Slovakia seek the transformation od Civil Procedure in such a form that would comply with the requirements of fair trial as well as fulfill the criteria to terminate procedures in reasonable time. Due to the increasing number od constitutional claims by citizens of the Czech and Slovek Republic as well as complaints od violation of the right to judicial protection before the European Court of Human Rights due to unnecessary delays, legilators of both abovementioned countries are seeking to accelerate civil procedure setting German Law as an example for achieving this goal. The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the Czech Republic and Slovakia managed to increase efficiency of judicial procedure, to highlight the persistent differences in the legislation of civil trial of the two countries in comparison with German law and to evaluate the differences found. The author has elaborated the work by using methods of analysis of relevant provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure and their mutual comparison, and comparison was primarily focused on the differences between the legislation of the Czech and Slovak in relation to the German legal regulation. This means that..