JUDr. Pavel Varvarovsky – Public Defender of Rights

First term of office from September 13, 2010

JUDr. Pavel Varvařovský was born on October 16th 1945 in České Budějovice. He is married, the father of two grown-up children, and has no political affiliations.

He studied at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. He completed his course in 1968 and in 1973 was awarded a doctorate in administrative law at the same faculty.

After completing his military service, we worked as a corporate lawyer in Moravian grape-growing concerns in Mikulov, Jeseníky State Spa, RD Jeseník, and for Ingstav, Brno. From October 1985 he worked as a specialised assistant-lawyer at the Institute of Further Education for Medical Staff in Brno. In 1990 he became the advisor to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic state attorney for refugee issues at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the following year the then chairman of the Supreme Court of the CSFR, JUDr. Motejl, offered him the post of judge on the court’s nascent administrative committee.

At the beginning of 1992 JUDr. Varvařovský passed the judicial examinations and in September 1992 was appointed judge at the Supreme Court of the CSFR; from January 1st 1993 he then served as judge for the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, based in Brno. At the beginning of 1994 he was proposed by JUDr. Motejl to the president of the republic, Václav Havel, as judge at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic and on March 29th 1994 was appointed to this post. Before ending his ten-year term of office he resigned his position as judge and took early retirement. In later years he lectured in labour law at the Building Faculty of the Brno University of Technology, taught basic law for employees of regional financial bodies, for the publishing house ASPI (now Wolters Kluwer), wrote a book entitled Basic Law, and also wrote reviews and specialised articles for this publisher.

He has never been a member of any political party or political movement.

At the end of August 2010 he was nominated by the Senate of the Czech Republic for the office of Public Defender of Rights, and on September 7th 2010 was elected to this post by the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic. After making an oath to the Chairwoman of the Chamber of Deputies, he took up this office on September 13th 2010.

Foto: CTK (Igor Sefr)