President Pavel makes new appointments to Constitutional Court

President Petr Pavel has appointed Veronika Křesťanová vice-chair of the Constitutional Court. She is replacing Vojtěch Šimíček whose ten-year term in office expired earlier this month. The head of state also appointed two new constitutional court judges, Jiří Přibáň and Tomáš Langášek, whose nomination was approved by the Senate last week.

Křesťanová became a constitutional court judge last August. Přibáň graduated from the Faculty of Law at Charles University and is a professor of law at Cardiff University in Wales. Langášek has been a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court since March 2013.