The content of this article is an analysis of a judicature of the ECHR relating to the institute of the criminal warrant. The author discusses the idea of a fair trial and its individual attributes and specifies, in what way they are reflected in cases, when a matter is decided by means of criminal warrant.
The Czech legal adjustment of this institute is not neglected either, and it is compared to the judicature of the ECHR and the conception of a fair trial in the sense of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights.