Legal news

In resolving an issue concerning the tenant’s statutory right of first refusal to ‘their’ apartment unit, the Supreme Court arrived at surprising conclusions regarding the moment in which the owner becomes obliged to offer the unit for purchase to the tenant.

After many years, the professional community may finally look forward to the (staggered) entry into force of key parts of the all-new Building Act (Act No. 283/2021 Coll.). What are they, and how do they impact the permitting process?

The so-called ‘consolidation package’ of measures designed to curb the shortfall of the national budget has arrived in the Senate, which will discuss the bill on 8 November.

The end of this year marks ten years since the (not-so-)new Civil Code has come into force. Will this milestone have impact on those owners of real property who, as at that date, are purely identified as such in the land register?

Regulation No. 650/2012 has been in force for no fewer than eight years already; even so, there still exist cases in which no court is willing to exercise jurisdiction and open inheritance proceedings upon the demise of persons who moved to another EU member state to receive institutional care there.