Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic

Seat of the Court in the former Moravian Diet building

Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic
Ústavní soud České republiky
Agency overview
Formed	1 January 1993
Jurisdiction	cases of constitutionality
Headquarters	Brno 2
Agency executives	Pavel Rychetský, Chairman Pavel Holländer, Vice-Chairman Eliška Wagnerová, Vice-Chairwoman Stanislav Balík František Duchoň Vlasta Formánková Vojen Guttler Ivana Janu Vladimir Kurka Dagmar Lastovecka Jiri Mucha Jan Musil Jiri Nykodym Miloslav Vyborny Michaela Zidlicka, Justices
Website
http://www.concourt.cz/clanek/urlMethodCall/sessionContext/

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The Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic (Czech: Ústavní soud České republiky) is a specialized type of court which primarily works to protect the people of the Czech Republic against violations of the constitution. In this respect, it is similar in functionality to the US Supreme Court, but is distinct from the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic. Of all the various levels of the Czech Judiciary it is the one created with the greatest specificity in the constitution. As such, it dates back to 1 January 1993, although it existed in a somewhat different form as a part of the Czechoslovak Federal Republic.^{[citation needed]}

History and predecessors

Conception and tasks of Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic are partly similar to former Constitutional Court of Czechoslovakia which was formally established by The Federalization Act since 1969 but really created as late as in April 1992, then it functioned less than one year. The Federalization Act presumed also creation of Constitutional Courts of both member republics (Czech, and Slovakian) but this intention was never incarnated during the federation, by reasons of normalization.

Czechoslovakia has its Constitutional Court also during the First Republic since 1921 (it was since 1931 in vacancy) and during the Second Republic since 1938.

See also

• Judiciary
• Rule of law
• Rule According to Higher Law