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Forcing plaintiff to put court fees in escrow
The Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic finds an occasional obligation for plaintiff to place defendant’s potential costs in escrow prior to ruling. Defendant, a Slovak bank, was sued by an offshore company for approximately 127 Million EUR. Defendant argued that the combination of a speculative claim by plaintiff, combined by
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The newly prepared Code of Civil Justice in the Czech Republic
The Czech Code of Civil Justice currently in force was passed in 1963, at a time of wildly different social and political circumstances. Many shortcomings have since been successfully removed from the law, but it continues to suffer from the excessive complexity, inconsistencies, and often a lack of clarity of
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Online sales of Rx-medicinal products
Central and Eastern Europe. In most countries in the region where the law firm bnt attorneys in CEE is represented, online sales of prescription medicines (also “Rx”) are prohibited by national legislation. An exception is Estonia or Germany, where online sale of prescription-only medicinal products is allowed.
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Are we about to witness the end of the systemic bias defense?
A phenomenon known as "systemic bias of administration", which has long been the subject of discussions, is headed for a solution: a proposed amendment to the Administrative Code wants to abolish the possibility to invoke the defense of systemic bias, with the goal to make the decision-making process of administrative
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Loans from the perspective of joint marital property
Why choosing not to co-sign the loan agreement is not necessarily the right choice? As a principle, debts which are assumed by one spouse during marriage without the consent of the other spouse are not a part of joint marital property. Those who, taking out a loan, want to avert