Since the fall of communism in 1989, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of commercial disputes brought before the Czech courts. In the early years of the introduction of a market economy into the Czech Republic, the courts, staffed by judges without commercial experience, were applying a new law in novel circumstances.
The early record of the Czech courts was not impressive: they earned a reputation for being slow, corrupt and unable to deal with complex disputes. Experience, combined with comprehensive changes to the administrative, procedural and substantive laws of the Czech Republic, have brought big advances towards efficiency.
