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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 43 No 2 (1997), 33–46
Právní rada v londýnském exilu za druhé světové války
[The Juridical Council in London Exile During the Second World War]
Jan Kuklík
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2025.248
published online: 31. 03. 2020
abstract
The study is concerned with the process of establishment of the fourth organ of the Czechoslovak Provisional State Apparatus in London during the Second World War – the Juridical Council. The author first analyses reasons which lead to the establishment of the Juridical Council and at the same time he looks at the main objectives of the Council. The Juridical Council was established in December 1942 to deal with the complaints of the Czechoslovak citizens against the decisions of the Czechoslovak Government in exile in administrative matters. The second main task of the Council was to prepare legal opinions on drafts of the Presidential decrees and to give the Government advises concerning the post war legislature. In the second part of the study, on the basis of original archive documents, the author analyses the most important cases heard before the Juridical Council and draws dose attention between the cases and other key legal problems of the Provisional State Apparatus in exile – i.e. with the non – validity of the Munich agreement, the continuity of the Czechoslovak state and law and the recognition of the Czechoslovak Government in exile. The third part of the study is closely connected with the question of Presidential decrees during the period of London exile. The author shows that the preparation of key Presidential decrees in London was discussed not only in Presidential Office and Cabinet but also in the State Council and Juridical Council. In conclusion, the study claims that the existence and functioning of the Juridical Council was closely connected with the existence of the Provisional State Apparatus in London and after President Beneš and Exile Government moved to the liberated Czechoslovakia via Moscow, the Juridical Council ceased to exist. The second most important conclusion is that analyses of the cases and opinions of the Juridical Council is still underestimated and practically unknown source of the Czechoslovak legal history of the Second World War.
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