Administrative appeals, ombudsman, and other ADR tools in the czech administrative law

Abstract

The chapter deals with review measures within the competence of administrative bodies, principally comprising the administrative appeal—traditionally the main element of the system of legal guarantees against public administration. Moreover, the chapter is focused on the role of the Ombudsman in the Czech Republic as a means of dispute settlement, as well as on other tools of an (effective) alternative dispute resolution. All of the above are under the provisions of a relatively new Code of Administrative Procedure (2004) and of a Code of Administrative Justice (2002), as well as under the influence of the European standards of good administration. The chapter scrutinizes the limits of ADR in the Czech administrative law and its perspectives.