Abstract
The article analyzes one of the most used concepts in the Czech legal system, both from a theoretical point of view, where it analyzes its content, and on the basis of empirical data, which is used to analyze the functioning of this concept. He comes to the opinion that public interest is one of the most important expressions of interest in general, whereby interest is understood as the relationship of an individual to a certain phenomenon.
Public interest is the result of the basic values of a given society, which then find expression in the legal order, or in each of its standards. Individual values promote as individual, private, collective and finally public interests, which can be in opposition to each other.
Then it is necessary to develop criteria on the basis of which these interests are balanced. These aspects are the values enshrined in the constitutional order, especially in basic human rights.