The paper deals in great detail with the problem of prospective and retrospective overruling of caselaw in the Czech legal system. First, the paper explains the concept of precedent in the Czech legal system. Itanalyzes how precedent was approached in the 1990s and how this changed in the 21st century. Then the textdiscusses various options of temporal effects of the case law in general and in the Czech Republic in particular.The practice of general courts and the Constitutional Court is addressed first. Finally, the case law of theSupreme Administrative Court is dealt with. It provides possibly the most complex mechanism to deal withtemporal effects of overruling in the Czech legal system
The article deals with the concept of teleological interpretation as one of the fundamental interpretative methods recognized by the Czech legal theory as well as practically used by Czech courts, especially by the Supreme Court, Administrative Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. The article is divided into two major parts. The first of them analyzes the historical genesis and characteristic features of the teleological interpretation from the perspective of both Czech and international literature. In the second part of the article, the authors focus on the analysis of selected judgments which use teleological interpretation within its argumentation. The article describes the role of the teleological interpretation and its consequences to the final judgment of each case. Particularly, the text investigates the relation between textual interpretation and teleo- logical interpretation and illustrates the situations when the teleological interpretation prevailed.