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If the new Civil Code is adopted in its proposed form, it will not merely be a matter of replacing the old code with a more modern one. It will change the way contracts are concluded, business negotiations are conducted, and, above all, disputes are resolved in court.
The court will no longer be the one to identify an error in a contract on its own initiative. The new legislation abandons automatic invalidity and prioritizes the validity of a legal act if it corresponds to the parties’ intent. The decisive factor will be whether a party can identify, in a timely, precise, and procedurally correct manner, the right it is asserting.
A particularly sensitive issue will be the harmonization of statutes of limitations and new pre-contractual liability—negotiations, emails, and meeting minutes may become decisive evidence in a dispute.
Artificial intelligence is also playing a role in this change, as it is now used to draft an increasing number of simple legal documents. But can it handle even the biggest change in Slovak private law in decades in a way that won’t complicate a business owner’s dispute tomorrow?
