Abstract
The main aim of this article is to show when it is possible to award punitive damages under the Czech Civil Code. First, the author discusses a thesis that current Czech law of delictual liability is rights-based and that it is useful to strictly distinguish between correlative primary and secondary rights and duties in order to understand various functions of remedies.
It is then argued that under this theoretical structure there is room for both corrective and distributive justice, the second of which may support the punitive function of remedies. The goal of punitive damages is a new distribution.
Finally, a key part of this article identifies particular conditions for the punitive damages awards in Czech law.