Being a market leader also means responsibility and commitments to the entire society. We at HAVEL & PARTNERS are aware of this and have long been actively involved in the drafting of good-quality and functional legislation, thus contributing to the refinement of the Czech legal system and business environment.
Our dedicated legislative team consists of ten top lawyers under the management of our firm’s partner František Korbel, a former legislative deputy to several ministers of justice who was in charge of drafting the new Civil Code and Criminal Code and dozens of other acts. All team members have unique experience from the Legislative Council of the Government and its commissions, ministries, Parliament and other public and state authorities. They also work with and lecture at Faculties of Law at universities in Prague, Brno and Olomouc.
That is why HAVEL & PARTNERS has unique know-how and the strongest team focused on actual legislation and its theoretical background in one firm. “With the many years of our experience and unique expertise, we can contribute to the creation of laws that benefit the state, business and people,” said Jaroslav Havel.
His words and the firm’s unique position in this area have been confirmed by the results of the prestigious Law of the Year survey, in which votes are cast by the general and professional public. For the third time in a row, a piece of legislation won that has been drafted with our participation. The Law of the Year 2020 was the Bank Identity Act, which fundamentally simplified identification in the online environment by enabling remote identity verification via the access data of all online banking users of all banks. This service can now be used by more than 5 million people in the Czech Republic completely free of charge.
Besides the Bank Identity Act, we have also participated in the preparation of the Right to Digital Services Act, which succeeded in the survey last year as the Law of the Year 2019. And the unique know-how of HAVEL & PARTNERS in legislation was also recognised in the voting on the Law of the Year 2018, when the Amendment to the Act on the Acceleration of Linear Infrastructure Construction was declared winner. The amendment was prepared with the engagement of the firm’s experts in construction and the public sector.
