15. 2. 2023
Team News: Michael Mack New Junior Lawyer in the Team
Giese & Partner is pleased to introduce to you a new junior lawyer in our Prague team:
Mgr. Michael Mack
Michael joined our Prague team as paralegal in 2020 and became junior lawyer after having graduated from the School of Law at Charles University in Prague in January 2023. Michael specializes in corporate law, real estate projects, civil law and international privat law. He speaks Czech, English and German.
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.
