Právní poznání v praxi

The Supreme Court in its decision of 17.9.2025, sp. zn. 25 Cdo 2087/2024 stated that the right of a parent to stay with a hospitalized child is not absolute. In this case, it was a mother who wanted to spend the night in intensive care with her month-old son. The paramedics allowed her to stay awake at the bedside, but not to sleep, because the ward was not spatially or technically adapted for this. The lawsuit for apology and compensation was dismissed by the courts.

Under Section 1017 of the Civil Code, neighbors must refrain from planting trees in close proximity to the land boundary. The law establishes a simple rule:

The government has tabled an amendment to the Consumer Protection Act and the Civil Code, taking over the new rules from the EU. In practice, this means the end of free claims such as “eco”, “sustainable” with no verifiable basis, a ban on false or manipulated reviews and penalties for hidden “bullets” that shorten the life of products.

The Constitutional Court in its finding of 26 November 2025, sp. no. The pl. ÚS 31/24, rejected the Supreme Court's motion to repeal the provision of Section 41 (3) of the Labour Code, which allows an employer to transfer an employee even without his consent to a type of work other than that agreed in the employment contract — typically, for example, in a situation where the employee is unable to perform his original job due to his health condition. The Supreme Court argued that this arrangement conflicted with the right to free choice of profession and the right not to be subjected to slavery, serfdom, and forced labor and service.

It is worth setting out at the outset the difference between a claim for compensation for an increase in value and a claim for reimbursement of costs. Costs are the funds expended on altering a thing (a property). The increase in value is the amount by which that alteration raised the value of the thing. Not every cost incurred by a tenant therefore raises the value of the property; on the contrary, a wholly unsuitable alteration may even reduce it.