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Less than a year after re-codification of civil procedural law, the first amendment to civil procedure, the Civil Litigation Code, Act 160/2015 Z.z., has been passed. The amendment applies to the right of the party to act before a court using his/her native language or the language the party can understand. The presenters of the legislative proposal substantiated the need to amend the law by reasons of its harmonization with the existing rules of the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages which is bi...

In the Slovak Republic divided views have persisted for several years as to whether a court executor may create a lien on immovable property in favor of the entitled party to secure the party’s monetary debt claimed in the execution proceedings, and subsequently sell the obligated party’s encumbered property without consent of the preferred lien creditor (i.e. the creditor in whose favor the lien has been created on the obligated party’s immovable property earlier). According to one view, relying on statutory inte...