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Protection of human rights is an important element of private law in the Czech Republic. Over the past few years, there has been a large recodification of private law in the Czech Republic. The core law of the Czech private law is the Act No 89/2012, i.e. the new Civil Code. In our paper, we explain that there are embodied many provisions whose purpose is to protect human rights in the new Civil Code. In some cases, the drafters of the new Civil Code were inspired by the European standards. However, there are areas which, in our opinion, should be amended so that the human rights would enjoy more protection. In our paper, we cover several areas of Czech private law and highlight some areas in which protection of human rights is reflected.
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See the decisions of the Constitutional Court No Pl. U.S. 19/93, Pl. U.S. 25/97, Pl. U.S. 7/2000, Pl. U.S. 5/01, Pl. U.S. 31/03, Pl. U.S. 2/02, and so on. http://nalus.usoud.cz/Search/Search.aspx. Accessed 17 July 2014.
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The powers of the Constitutional Court are set forth in the Act on the Constitutional Court No 182/1993 Coll. A list of powers of the Constitutional Court: http://www.usoud.cz/en/competences/.
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Compare Pincova and Pinc vs. Czech Republic, no. 36548/97, ECtHR 2002.
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Hurdík, J., Selucká, M. (2016). New Czech Civil Law in the Light of Human Rights. In: Trstenjak, V., Weingerl, P. (eds) The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25337-4_6
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