Consumer collective redress in the Czech Republic: Current situation and perspectives

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Consumer collective redress in the Czech Republic: Current situation and perspectives
Original language description
The current landscape of collective redress in the Czech Republic is rather bleak. Not only are there no effective collective civil procedure mechanisms, but no compensatory collective redress schemes whatsoever. The paper summarizes the current legislative landscape and practice in the Czech Republic as concerns collective (civil procedural) enforcement of consumer (and marginally also: environmental) rights. It marks out the standing to file representative injunctive suits, as currently scattered throughout the Czech law, and complains about lack of collective instruments to enforce monetary claims. It informs of recent spontaneous attempts to cumulate mass diffuse claims. In the second part, the paper gives an overview of the ongoing legislative project on collective (group) actions (standing, certification, group members, conducting the process, litigation funding etc.). It concludes with evaluation of the bill, including the central observation that its scope and aiming are to be welcome. The current landscape of collective redress in the Czech Republic is rather bleak. Not only are there no effective collective civil procedure mechanisms, but no compensatory collective redress schemes whatsoever.
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Czech description
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Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Efficient Collective Redress Mechanisms in Visegrad 4 Countries: An Achievable Target?
ISBN
978-80-87439-39-5
Number of pages of the result
13
Pages from-to
56-68
Number of pages of the book
280
Publisher name
Institute of State and Law of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Place of publication
Praha
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