Veronika Křesťanová appointed Constitutional Court judge

President Petr Pavel appointed Veronika Křesťanová as a justice on the Czech Constitutional Court in a ceremony at Prague Castle on Tuesday. An intellectual property specialist, Křesťanová is the third woman on the country’s top court and brings the number of members on the 15-seat body to 14.

Judge Robert Fremr was due to be the 15th and his appointment was also approved by the Senate. However, President Pavel has put the matter on hold after revelations emerged about his actions as a jurist under the communist system.