Subsidiarity of Human Rights in Practice: The Relationship between the Constitutional Court and Lower Courts in Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15220%2F19%3A73587981" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15220/19:73587981 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0924051918820987" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0924051918820987</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0924051918820987" target="_blank" >10.1177/0924051918820987</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Subsidiarity of Human Rights in Practice: The Relationship between the Constitutional Court and Lower Courts in Czechia
Original language description
The principle of subsidiarity is viewed as the cornerstone of the protection of human rights. Internationally, it is primarily the responsibility of states to ensure that human rights are respected and protected on a domestic level and any international protection mechanism is only supplementary. Taken to the domestic level, apex courts in a country also provide only subsidiary protection of human rights, which must first and foremost be protected by lower level courts. Subsidiarity has two facets – the obligation of lower courts directly applying human rights and the corresponding deference of higher courts. Little attention has been given so far to how subsidiarity of human rights works in practice and how human rights are in fact applied by the primary level of court systems. The paper uses Czechia as a case study to test a hypothesis that if lower courts apply human rights then there is a lower chance that the Constitutional Court as an apex court will find a human rights violation in that case. This dependence is indicative that subsidiarity actually works in practice.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-07776S" target="_blank" >GA16-07776S: The application of human rights by first and second instance courts</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

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

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