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BURDEN OF PROOF IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

BURDEN OF PROOF IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

RADIM CHALUPA,

JUDr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure,

Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno, Attorney

DOI: 10.24031/2226-0781-2019-9-6-188-207

Author deals in the article with the situation, in which the court in civil proceedings has to

make the decision, but it is not always possible to get information from the most important

source for establishing the facts – taking of evidence. If there is objective uncertainty about

any of the relevant factual circumstances, which is referred to as non liquet, the court cannot

rule on the basis of the facts established. The court is obliged to decide on the claimed claim

in case of fulfilment of procedural conditions irrespective of whether the factual situation

has succeeded or failed to be clarified, otherwise it would have committed an error in the

form of denial of justice. If the facts are not established and the court still has to decide

on the claim, the decisive criterion for deciding the case is the burden of proof. Author

concerns on function of the burden of proof in the civil proceedings and deals also with the

components of the burden of proof. The burden of proof is very closely connected with the

burden of claiming facts. Author describes the relation between the burden of proof and

the principle to hear which applies in the Czech contentious proceedings. Important part of

the article formed by the problematics of the legal regulation of the burden of proof in the

Czech Republic and decision-making practice of the Czech courts in the issue of the burden

of proof. Author concerns also on the possible procedures for defending the claim from the

view of the burden of proof including the theories of the burden of proof (norm analysis

theory, theory of the facts that establish a right, prevent a right and abolish a right and the

negative theory). At the end of the article deals author with the basic rule of distribution of

the burden of proof and presents the German, Austrian and Swiss view on the basic rule

of the distribution of the burden of proof.

Keywords: burden of proof; principle to hear; court decision; civil procedure; Czech

Republic.

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Information about the author

Radim Chalupa (Brno, Czech Republic) – JUDr., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the

Department of Civil Procedure, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University in Brno, Attorney

(158/70 Veveří, Brno, 61180, Czech Republic; e-mail: [email protected]).

Recommended citation

Chalupa R. Bremia dokazyvaniia v Cheshskoi Respublike [Burden of Proof in the

Czech Republic]. Vestnik grazhdanskogo protsessa – Herald of Civil Procedure, 2019,

vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 188–207. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24031/2226-0781-2019-9-6-

188-207

RADIM CHALUPA