WHAT IS THE MOST DIFFICULT

Working with lawyers from the UK and Germany has given me the opportunity to make the extraordinary observation that they are always doing what is most difficult: THEY READ THE DOCUMENTS. I didn’t always do that: (a) I read from start to finish and (b) critically (c) I took notes and (d) wondered what I was really reading and (e) WHAT I was reading at all. It was very puzzling to me that lawyers from the UK, after reading the document, had many questions, comments and insights that I myself had not seen. When I worked in the Chancellery of the President of the Republic, my task was to give an opinion on the laws to be signed by the President.

I received a law that amended the Civil Code. This law implemented the guidelines of the Constitutional Court, which ruled that the renunciation of property ownership in favour of the municipality must be subject to restrictions.

It must not be the case that, for example, a mine will simply relinquise to a property that requires inputs to remove waste on the property, explained TK. In its judgment, the TK stated what criteria it must meet and what must include a provision on the ren rending of ownership of immovable property in order to comply with the Constitution. The law passed in order to implement the TK judgment did not meet one quarter of the TK criteria, despite the fact that it went through the whole legislative process.