Abstract
The presented paper will offer a look at the law and the crisis from the perspective of court decisions, which form a significant part of the Czech legal system. The crisis is reflected in all types of court proceedings.
It is referred to by the parties of the proceedings and taken into account by the judges when making decisions. A crisis is an argument, a mitigating or aggravating circumstance, or a term that, in one word, economically summarizes an unfavorable situation, a more detailed description of which is not necessary.
The main research question - What is the specific role of the crisis in court decisions and how important is it? The research corpus is consisted of 100 court decisions, selected at random from published online court decisions (accessible publicly via the justice.cz)