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Czech Bar Exam study plan

Czech Bar Exam · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Civil law (including family law and obligations)

  • Map the Civil Code (zákon č. 89/2012 Sb.) into a one-page outline covering persons, family, absolute property rights, relative rights and inheritance so that every later session has a hook

  • Draft a comparison table of the core institutes of family law (marriage, registered partnership, community of property, maintenance, parentage, adoption) with their statutory sections and leading-case keywords

  • Solve 15 obligation-law scenarios on formation, invalidity, change of parties and termination of contract, writing the applicable section next to each answer

  • Produce a checklist of limitation and prescription periods (promlčení and prekluze) with the correct starting points and lengths

Your checkpoint

A 4-page civil-law skeleton outline plus a 20-row limitation-period table, self-graded against the Civil Code text

Week 2

Civil law (including family law and obligations) & Civil procedure and enforcement of judgments

  • Work through the law of tort and unjust enrichment (náhrada škody, bezdůvodné obohacení) by solving 10 fact patterns and stating the elements required for each claim

  • Outline inheritance law stages (dědické tituly, řízení o pozůstalosti, ochrana dědice) and connect them to the civil-procedure rules that govern the notary's role

  • Summarise the course of first-instance civil proceedings under the Civil Procedure Code (zákon č. 99/1963 Sb.), from filing through judgment

  • Identify the main remedies (odvolání, dovolání, žaloba na obnovu řízení) and note the deadlines and grounds for each in a one-page cheat sheet

Your checkpoint

A one-page procedural-flow diagram from filing to final decision, annotated with deadlines and remedies

Week 3

Criminal law and criminal procedure

  • Build a table of the elements of the main offences of the Criminal Code (zákon č. 40/2009 Sb.) against the protected interests, covering offences against life and health, property, and against the state

  • Distinguish the stages of a criminal offence (příprava, pokus, dokonání) and the grounds excluding unlawfulness, with one example per institute

  • Draft a structured analysis of criminal liability of legal persons and of juveniles under the Juvenile Justice Act

  • Outline the pre-trial stage of criminal procedure: the role of police, state prosecutor, and the rights of the accused and the victim

Your checkpoint

A 2-page offence-elements matrix covering at least 20 offences with their statutory sections

Week 4

Criminal law and criminal procedure & Legal ethics and the status of the legal profession

  • Trace the trial stage of criminal procedure (hlavní líčení, dokazování, rozhodnutí) and the ordinary and extraordinary remedies, noting who may file and by when

  • Explain the rules on detention, search, and wiretapping and the judicial review that applies to each

  • Summarise the status of the legal profession under the Advocacy Act (zákon č. 85/1996 Sb.), including attorney-client privilege and conflicts of interest

  • Draft answers to three ethics scenarios covering confidentiality, fees, and advertising, citing the relevant statutory or bar-rule provisions

Your checkpoint

A one-page criminal-procedure timeline plus three short written ethics-scenario answers

Week 5

Administrative law and administrative procedure & Constitutional law and human rights

  • Map the structure of the Code of Administrative Procedure (zákon č. 500/2004 Sb.), listing the phases of administrative proceedings and the competent authorities at each stage

  • Distinguish ordinary and extraordinary remedies in administrative proceedings and the scope of judicial review by administrative courts

  • Outline the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (Listina) structure and match each main right to the constitutional provision and the test applied by the Constitutional Court

  • Explain the role of the Constitutional Court in constitutional review and the requirements for a constitutional complaint

Your checkpoint

A two-page comparison of administrative remedies and constitutional remedies, with deadlines and standing rules for each

Week 6

Commercial law (including business corporations) & Labour law and social security law

  • Outline the Business Corporations Act (zákon č. 90/2012 Sb.) structure, distinguishing the general partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, and joint-stock company by formation, capital, and governance

  • Explain the duties of company officers (péče řádného hospodáře) and the consequences of breach, with a worked example

  • Summarise the Labour Code (zákon č. 262/2006 Sb.) rules on formation, change, and termination of employment, including notice periods and severance

  • Identify the core social-security and health-insurance contribution rules and the main benefits, in a short reference table

Your checkpoint

A one-page comparison table of the four main corporate forms plus a one-page employment-termination cheat sheet

Week 7

European Union law & Tax law and financial law

  • Outline the sources and hierarchy of EU law, the direct effect and supremacy doctrines, and the role of the preliminary-reference procedure

  • Summarise the four freedoms and the main rules on competition and state aid, with one example per area

  • Explain the structure of Czech tax law: income tax, VAT, and the procedural rules in the Tax Code (zákon č. 280/2009 Sb.)

  • Outline the main financial-law topics: banking supervision, securities regulation, and anti-money-laundering duties

Your checkpoint

A one-page EU-law concept map plus a one-page tax-and-financial-law reference sheet

Week 8

Civil law (including family law and obligations) & Criminal law and criminal procedure & Civil procedure and enforcement of judgments

  • Rework every earlier self-graded answer that scored below full marks and record the corrected rule and section

  • Sit two timed mock exams under exam conditions and score them using the same rubric

  • Revisit the civil, criminal, and procedural outlines and redraw any section you cannot reproduce from memory

  • Compile a final one-page-per-domain summary sheet to use in the last days before the exam

Your checkpoint

Two scored mock exams plus a corrected error log and a 10-page final summary set

Milestones

Week 2: Can reproduce the civil-law outline and limitation-period table from memory and correctly answer 12 of 15 obligation scenarios with the right section

Week 4: Can list the stages of criminal procedure and the remedies with deadlines, and score at least 70% on a self-made 30-question criminal-law quiz

Week 6: Can compare the four corporate forms and the employment-termination rules without notes, and pass a self-made 20-question commercial-and-labour quiz

Week 8: Both timed mock exams score at least 65%, and every earlier error has a written corrected rule and section