Responsibility of parties for the course of proceedings as well as its result is de lege lata systematically reinforced since the end of the last century. One of the legal institutes reinforce of responsibility of parties for the result of proceedings is the judgment by default (default judgment).
De lege ferenda it is possible for the Czech civil procedure to seek inspiration in the German legislation. The aim of this article is to focus on the general issue of responsibility of parties for the result of civil adversary proceedings as well as to the definition of a default judgment, referring to its legislation in the German civil procedure.