TFL Vsebine / Pravni letopis

Pravica do pritožbe je izrazito zasebno usmerjena. Namenjena je varovanju posamičnega (pritožnikovega) interesa. Ustavno varovano vsebino pravice do pravnega sredstva zato opredeljuje načelo instančnosti, katerega bistvo je, da lahko sodišče druge stopnje presoja odločitev prvostopenjskega sodišča z vidika vseh vprašanj, ki so pomembna za odločitev o zahtevku. Zato je sporno, ali so nova (razširjena) revizijska pooblastila, ki omogočajo (celo zahtevajo) ne le preizkus, temveč tudi dopolnjevanje dejanskega stanja z dejstvi, o katerih se sodišče prve stopnje ni izreklo, združljiva z ustavno varovano pravico do pravnega sredstva, in če, v katerih primerih in pod katerimi pogoji.

The right to appeal has a clear private character. It is focused on protecting the party’s private interest. The constitutionally assured essence of the right to legal remedy is therefore defined by the principle of instance, whose essential element means the possibility of the court of second instance to review the lower court decision from all crucial points – including questions of fact. For this reason it could be disputable whether the new (broadened) reformatory powers, that enable (even demand) not only control but also supplementing the lower court’s fact finding with the new facts that were not subject of the lower court's deliberation, are in accordance with the constitutional right to legal remedy ­ and if so, in which cases and under which circumstances.

Establishing the State of the Facts at the Appellate Level