Slovak law offers no legal remedy against the Supreme Court’s decision on an extraordinary appeal.
The Supreme Court is under fresh criticism after it overturned the corruption conviction of Dušan Kováčik, who previously served as the country’s special prosecutor. The controversy has grown after a Supreme Court judge raised concerns about whether the judges who heard Kováčik’s appeal were properly selected under the law.
Judge Juraj Kliment said in an interview with the news website Postoj that four judges who withdrew from the five-member panel hearing Kováčik’s extraordinary appeal should not have excluded themselves without a decision by another panel. The Supreme Court said the judges were replaced to comply with a Constitutional Court ruling intended to prevent judges from ruling twice on the same legal issue.
The dispute concerns the December 2025 judgment that quashed Kováčik’s final conviction for accepting a €50,000 bribe and sent the case back for further proceedings.
New reporting by the daily SME has disclosed additional details about the appeal process.
