Default judgment as a mandatory procedural act of the court

Abstract

The article deals with the application of the procedural institute of judgment by default, which is based on the principle of the party’s responsibility for the result. It aims at a quick hearing of the case and a decision. In the past, a significant problem in court practice was the frequent and often even endless postponement of hearings due to the fact that someone did not appear at the hearing, either without an excuse or for a reason that could not be considered justifiable or was apparently „made up“. A special type of court decision results from the procedural passivity of the procedural parties in the dispute proceedings.