Jaroslav Ivor, Adrian Vasko
The right to a fair trial, resulting from international documents, the Constitution and legal order of the Slovak Republic, is confronted in terms of content with the requirement and reasonable expectation of fair decision making in criminal proceedings. The paper seeks to define the concept of justice, and its procedural and substantive aspect as a course but also as the result of criminal proceedings. Criminal proceedings are always aimed at resulting in a certain decision of the body active in criminal proceedings and the Court. Criminal proceedings without a decision would not make sense. The content and quality of the decision, especially from the point of view of legality and fairness, reflects the legal culture of the state and its bodies. This topic and its attributes were also presented in the publishing activities of Professor Jelínek, whether in its theoretical or application level.