Abstract
"Hate speech" represents a modern and often inflected term, under which not everyone can imagine what exactly it is about. Especially if it is used in conjunction with the phrase "hate crimes". The presented article thus aims to introduce both concepts to a reasonable extent, to define their content and to point out the differences between them, where the content of these concepts overlaps in part, but differs in part.
The article then describes the absolute personal rights that can be affected as a result of hate speech or hate crime and also addresses the issue of remedying the resulting consequences.
The focus of the article is the civil law issue of the chosen topic, however, due to the close connection with the criminal law issue, it is impossible to neglect, at least in the basic scope, the criminal law dimension of the issue being processed.
Thus, the text primarily attempts a comprehensive treatment of the issue of hate speech, whether in a specific case it is also a hate crime or not. The assigned topic is then processed in relation to the substantive legal issue, as well as in relation to the solution of the problem.
During the preparation of the presented article, no specific scientific question was asked, but it is primarily a text of a descriptive nature with an overlap into practice.