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Mediation

30.07.2019

The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic stated in its decision of 23 April 2019, file no. 32 Cdo 594/2019, in connection with an ordered mediation, that if the parties are ordered to have their first meeting with a registered mediator and they participate at this first meeting at the same time, the mediation itself has not yet started. The mediation begins only when a mediation agreement is signed. This agreement is usually signed at the first meeting with the mediator. Therefore the first meeting with a me

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Co-ownership

16.07.2019

The plaintiff sued the defendant about the settlement of their co-ownership. Both parties owned an ideal half of the property, which consisted of a house with land. According to the legal diction, co-ownership shall be settled either by dividing the property, by selling the property freely or in a public auction, or by transferring the ownership right to one or more co-owners by compensating the former co-owner.

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Amendment to the Insolvency Act

02.07.2019

On the 1st June 2019 and amendment to Act No. 182/2006 Coll on bankruptcy and methods of its solution (hereinafter referred to as “Insolvency act”) came into force, which mainly concerns the change in the conditions of debt relief of natural persons.

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