Otakar Motejl

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Otakar Motejl (born September 10, 1932 in Prague , Czechoslovakia, † May 9, 2010 in Brno ) was a Czech lawyer and non-party politician .

Life

Motejl studied at the Faculty of Law of the Charles University in Prague , where he received his doctorate in 1955 . completed. He then worked as a lawyer in Banská Bystrica , Kladno and Prague.

Between 1966 and 1968 he worked in the Legal Institute of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Justice, then from 1968 to 1970 as a judge at the Supreme Court of the ČSSR. During the years of normalization he defended dissidents and also the rock band The Plastic People of the Universe .

From 1990 to 1992 Motejl was President of the Supreme Court of the ČSFR, then until 1998 President of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic . In 1998 he was appointed Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic in the government of Miloš Zeman . On December 18, 2000 he was elected by the Czech Chamber of Deputies to the Ombudsman (Czech Veřejný ochránce práv - Public Guardian of the Law) and confirmed in 2006 for a further six years.

Motejl also took over the function of chairman of the arbitration tribunal in the "Diag Human" case after a period of reflection .

He died after a brief illness on May 9, 2010 in the University Hospital Brno.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Czech Ombudsman: Obituary for Otakar Motejl ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 10, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ochrance.cz
  2. ↑ Lidovky.cz

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personal data
SURNAME Motejl, Otakar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic (1998)
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2010
Place of death Brno