16. 7. 2024
Team News: David Benčat New Junior Lawyer in Bratislava
Giese & Partner is pleased to introduce to you a new junior lawyer in our Slovak team:
Mgr. David Benčat
David joined our Bratislava team as junior lawyer in April 2024. Since graduating from Comenius University and University of Economics in Bratislava in 2022 he has specialized in corporate law, insolvency law and financial law.
David speaks Slovak, English and German.
News & Publications
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.
