4. 3. 2024
IBA Conference in Lisbon – Martin Holler as Co-Moderator
“Real estate economics and finance: what really is driving the real estate market.”
Martin Holler will co-chair this session at the International Bar Association’s 14th Annual Real Estate Investments Conference in Lisbon on 10–12 April 2024. Together with Ricardo Guimarães (Confidencial Imobiliário, Lisboa) he will interview a forethinking expert speaker in the real estate market and its financing.
Neuigkeiten & Publikationen
Conflicts of Interest: A Three-Layer Problem with Real Money at Stake
Babiš’s conflict-of-interest problem is not just politics – it is a three-layer legal framework, with the sharpest impact coming from the pub-lic-money firewall in Sections 4b and 4c. We explain why shifting Agrofert into trust-type structures still raises doubts, and why the Hartenberg arm remains a key part of the story. A brisk read on the limits of Czech legislation and why the European Commission’s next steps may keep this issue alive.
A Cabinet Minister: To Be or Not To Be?
A Czech ministerial nomination turns into a constitutional stress test: can the President refuse the Prime Minister’s pick in a parliamentary system? The Filip Turek saga - ending in a “government commissioner” workaround - raises hard questions about institutional boundaries, incompatibility rules, and the rule of law.
The Digital Hallucination: A CZK 25,000 Lesson in AI Legal Ethics
Constitutional Court penalizes an attorney for submission based on "hallucinated" AI-generated content.
