Judges

JUDr. Pavol Naď has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 18 May 2021 and as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 10 December 2021. On 18 May 2021 he was appointed to the position of the President of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, where he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws “JUDr.” in 1984.

From 1984 to 1987 he worked as a legal officer of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Prešov and the District Prosecutor’s Office in Trebišov. Later, for three years as a prosecutor of the Košice Regional Prosecutor’s Office in the department of general and civil-court supervision. From 1990 to 1992 he was a district prosecutor of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Michalovce.

From 1993 to 2006 he worked as an attorney-at-law registered with the Slovak Bar Association as well as the Czech Bar Association.

In 2006 he was appointed to the position of judge at the District Court in Michalovce, since 2008 he has been working at the Regional Court in Košice. Since 2011 he has served as the President of the Panel of the Regional Court in Košice and since 2014 as the President of the Administrative Chamber of the Regional Court in Košice. From 2013 to 2016 he was a member of the Disciplinary Chamber Panel of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, to which he returned in 2021 for an internship at the Administrative Chamber.

Pavol Naď has published in domestic professional journals and is a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors responsible for the area of case law. He actively lectures for the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors, and the most important European publishing houses specializing in legal and economic literature.

His language skills include English, Russian and German. Pavol Naď is a passionate musician and traveller.

JUDr. Marián Trenčan has been serving as a judge and President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021. On 12 October 2021, he was appointed to the position of Vice-President of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

Marián Trenčan completed his higher education in 1993 at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was awarded the degree of Mgr. In 2006 he defended his rigorous thesis at the same faculty and received the degree of JUDr.

Immediately after graduation he joined the judiciary as a judicial officer. He became a judge in 1996, and for the first 10 years he worked as a single judge in civil law at one of Bratislava’s district courts. He entered the field of administrative law and administrative justice in 2006, when after a short internship he became a judge of the Administrative Chamber of the Regional Court in Bratislava. In 2017, he took up a judicial position at the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, from 2019 to 2021 as the President of the Panel. He has participated in several decisions published in the Collection of Opinions and Judgements of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

Marián Trenčan has participated in many domestic and foreign educational events, and has experience as a lecturer in the field of administrative court procedure. He has completed short-term study stays abroad in Finland and Israel with a focus on administrative justice.

Mgr. Kristína Babiaková has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 20 July 2021 and since 15 December 2022 as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

Kristína Babiaková graduated in law from the University of Trnava in Trnava in 2003 and practised as an attorney-at-law from 2007 to 2021. During her law studies and throughout her legal practice, she cooperated mainly with civil associations and initiatives of active citizens, to whom she provided legal assistance and advice, especially in the field of administrative law and protection of human rights. She has also worked on drafting and commenting on legislation, including as a member of legislative working groups established at the Ministry of Justice or the General Prosecutor’s Office, e.g. on acts concerning environmental protection or judicial and prosecutorial laws. She has authored and co-authored several publications on human rights and has also published on the topic of judicial selection. At the Faculty of Law, University of Trnava, she has taught a course on Community Legal Clinic and has also acted as a supervisor of students. She is a candidate appointed by the Minister of Justice as a member of the Judicial Selection Committee.

JUDr. Katarína Benczová has been serving as a judge and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021.

Katarína Benczová is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, where she was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). In 2002 she defended her rigorous thesis at the Department of Commercial and Economic Law of this faculty and was awarded the title of JUDr.

From 1993 to 1996 she worked as a judicial clerk and then for more than a year as a single judge at the commercial law section of the Regional Court in Bratislava. From 1997 to 2002, she was the president of the first instance panel as well as the presiding judge of the appeal panel at the Regional Court in Trenčín. From 2005 to 2016 she served as a single judge and as a presiding judge in the administrative justice agendas, and since 2013 also as a presiding judge in the commercial justice agenda. From 2015 to 2021, she served at the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, first for the first year as a judge on temporary assignment, later as a judge of the Administrative Chamber, and since 2019 she has served as the President of the Panel.

During her career, Katarína Benczová has participated in a number of study visits and internships abroad, e.g. at the Court of Justice of the European Union, the National Judicial School in Paris, or as a representative of the relevant courts in activities organised by the Academy of European Law (ERA), the European Judicial Training Network (EJTN) and the Association of Councils of State and Supreme Administrative Jurisdictions (ACA-Europe).

JUDr. Elena Berthotyová, PhD. has been serving as a judge and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021.

Elena Berthotyová is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she was awarded the master’s degree (Mgr.). Subsequently, between 1991 and 1995 she continued her postgraduate studies and obtained the degree of JUDr. as well as the scientific-academic rank of PhD.

From 1991 to 1994 she worked as a judicial clerk of the Municipal Court in Bratislava, and later from 1994 to 2003 as a judge of the District Court Bratislava I. From 2003 to 2005 she was a judge of the Regional Court in Bratislava and from 2015 to 2021 she worked at the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, first as a judge and since 2015 as the President of the Panel.

Elena Berthotyová has also been a member of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic since 2014 appointed by the President of the Slovak Republic. Since 2006, she has been an external lecturer at the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic in the areas of administrative justice and judicial ethics. Elena Berthotyová is also engaged in lecturing activities, e.g. for the Migration Office of the Slovak Republic, the Police Corps of the Slovak Republic and students of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, the Faculty of Law of Trnava University in Trnava and the Faculty of Law of P. J. Šafárik University in Košice. She is also the author of many scientific articles and monographs.

Elena Berthotyová is the recipient of the 2017 Judicature of the Year Award for the decision of the Panel of the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic in case 10Sza/12/2016.

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JUDr. Katarína Cangárová, PhD., LL.M. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 26 August 2021.

Katarína Cangárová graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 2008, in 2011 she obtained the degree of JUDr. During her studies she completed a semester stay at the University of Copenhagen and an internship in Great Britain. In 2012 she completed her postgraduate LL.M. studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam with honours. In 2013 she obtained her PhD. degree at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Business and Financial Law.

After graduation in 2008, she worked as an internal PhD. student and later as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she taught European and international law. She also provided seminars and training in the field of state aid law. After completing her traineeship in renowned law firms, she passed the bar exam in 2015 and was admitted to the list of attorneys maintained by the Slovak Bar Association. Until 2021 she worked as an attorney-at-law and later as a manager in an international consulting company. In her law practice she focused on commercial, competition, tax and labour law. At the same time, she was involved in commenting on legislation in the field of labour, social and tax law.

Katarína Cangárová completed several foreign stays and internships in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and France. She is the author of several scientific articles and a book publication on State Aid Law.

JUDr. Rastislav Dlugoš, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 June 2023.

Rastislav Dlugoš graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava (2001). In 2005 he defended his rigorous thesis at the Department of Legal History of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava and was awarded the degree of JUDr. In 2006 he successfully passed the professional judicial examination. He completed his legal studies in 2015 by successfully defending his doctoral thesis in the field of theory and history of state and law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava and was awarded the academic degree of PhD.

From 2003 to 2006 he worked at the Trnava District Court as a judicial clerk. In 2006, he was appointed as a judge with an assignment to the Trenčín District Court, first as an enforcement judge and later he was entrusted with the criminal docket. He subsequently served as a criminal judge from 2008 until 2017 at the District Court Nové Mesto nad Váhom, from where he moved to the Regional Court in Trenčín to the Administrative Chamber, where he served as the President of the Panel from 2020 and was also a member of the Judicial Council from 2022.

He has published in domestic professional journals (Právny obzor, Justičná revue). His hobbies are foreign languages; he is fluent in German and English. He also understands French and Italian.

JUDr. Michal Dzurdzík, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 January 2023 and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 21 June 2024.

Michal Dzurdzík is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where in 2004 he was awarded with master’s degree (Mgr.). In 2006, he passed the rigorous examination in the field of financial and economic law at the same faculty and was awarded the title of JUDr. In 2014, he completed his doctoral studies, defended his dissertation in the field of theory and history of the state and law at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava and was awarded the scientific-pedagogical rank of PhD.

After a short practice in the private sphere, in 2005 he joined the judiciary, namely the District Court Bratislava II as a judicial clerk, where he worked in the civil and criminal section. In 2010 he passed the judicial examinations. He became a judge in 2013 and was assigned to the civil section of the local court. In 2017, he moved to the Regional Court of Bratislava to the Administrative Chamber, where he started to work on administrative justice. In 2019, he became President of the Panel and in 2020 President of the Administrative Chamber at the Regional Court in Bratislava.

During his internship, he participated in seminars as well as language courses organized by the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic and completed several foreign internships. In addition to his work as a judge, he also devoted himself to publishing activities, publishing mainly in domestic professional journals. Since 2022 he has been a member of the Examination Committee of the Slovak Bar Association.

JUDr. Marián Fečík has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 20 July 2021 and as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 1 June 2022.

Marián Fečík completed his university studies at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was awarded the master’s degree (Mgr.). He passed the rigorous examination at the Faculty of Law of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica in 2002 and was awarded the title of JUDr.

He started his career at the Military District Court in Banská Bystrica, where he worked from 1997 to 1998. Subsequently, from 1998 to 1999 he was a lawyer of the cadastral department at the District Office in Trenčín. He joined the Trenčín District Prosecutor’s Office in 1999, where he first worked as a legal clerk and since 2001 as a prosecutor. From 2004 to 2007 he was a prosecutor of the Trenčín Regional Prosecutor’s Office. From 2007 until his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic, he worked as a prosecutor of the Non-Criminal Department of the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Slovak Republic.

Since 2015, he has also been an external member of the teaching staff of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic. During his career, he has served as a member of various legislative commissions, such as the Recodification Commission for the preparation of the new Civil Code, the Recodification Commission for the preparation of civil procedural codes, the Expert Commission for the preparation of the new Cadastral Act, the Permanent Working Commission of the Legislative Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Civil Law, Commercial Law and Criminal Law, and the Working Commission for the preparation of the Act on Disciplinary Rules of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

He is a co-author of several publications on the areas of administrative justice, non-criminal jurisdiction of the prosecutor’s office and cadastre of real estate and a contributor to professional scientific journals. He is a member of the author’s team of the commentary to the Administrative Procedure Code.

Since 2024 he has been a member of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic elected by judges.

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JUDr. Anita Filová has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021 and since 10 December 2021 as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

Anita Filová is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where in 2001 she was awarded the master’s degree (Mgr.). In 2004, she received her JUDr. degree from the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava.

From 2001 to 2004 she worked as a lawyer of the Municipal Property Administration of Trnava. From 2004 to 2009 she was a judicial clerk at the Trnava District Court, and later from 2009 to 2014 she was an assistant of a judge of the Administrative Chamber at the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic. From 2014 to 2017 she was subsequently a prosecutor in the non-criminal section of the District Prosecutor’s Office Bratislava II. In 2017, she moved to the Regional Court in Trnava, where she worked until 2021, first as a judge of the Commercial and Administrative Chamber, and later as its president.

Since 2017, she has also been an external member of the teaching staff of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic, and since 2019 she has also been a substitute member of the examination board for professional judicial examinations. She teaches the subject of Administrative Justice Clinic at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava. She is a member of the author’s team of the commentary to the Administrative Procedure Code and the Civil Procedure Code. She also lectures in these areas.

JUDr. Jana Hatalová, PhD., LL.M. has been serving as a judge and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021.

Jana Hatalová graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1987. She passed the rigorous examination at the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice in 1988 and was awarded the title of JUDr. From 2003 to 2008 she completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of the Comenius University in Bratislava in the field of administrative law, where she was awarded the scientific-pedagogical rank of PhD. based on a successful defence of her dissertation on the topic “Administrative justice, current status and perspectives”.

In 1992 she passed the judicial examination and until 2002 she worked as a judge at the District Court Bratislava I in the commercial section. Subsequently, in 2003 she joined the Regional Court in Bratislava at the Administrative Chamber. From 2004 to 2021, she worked at the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, first as a judge, from 2008 as the President of the Panel and from 2014 as the Deputy President of the Administrative Chamber.

From 2015 to 2019, Jana Hatalová also served as a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Public Administration of the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice. Since 2019, she has also served as a substitute member of the Examination Board of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic for the field of administrative law, administrative justice and financial law, and since 2009 as a member of the Examination Board of the Slovak Bar Association.

She has participated in seminars organised by the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, as well as foreign conferences. In addition to her judicial activity, she also develops her publishing and lecturing activity. She is a member of the author’s team of the commentary to the Administrative Procedure Code.

Mgr. Peter Mach, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 June 2023.

Peter Mach graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava in 2003. He continued his doctoral studies at the same faculty and obtained a PhD. in Roman law. Until 2017, he also taught this subject at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava and developed it in several scientific projects. He also graduated in Classical Languages at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Trnava. He also participated in various educational activities and scientific conferences.

He entered the judicial environment in 2016 as an assistant of a judge of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic at the Administrative Chamber. Since 2021, he has been continuously working as an assistant of a judge at the newly established Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic. In 2022, he was appointed a judge of the then District Court Bratislava I, where he worked in the civil law section until his transfer to the local court, following a selection procedure.

Peter Mach is the author and reviewer of several professional articles, co-author and compiler of several books, and in the past, he was the executive editor of the Orbis Iuris Romani magazine. He was a member and secretary of the Academic Senate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava. He is a member of the Czech Church Law Society.

JUDr. Jana Martinčeková has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 20 August 2021 and since 10 December 2021 as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

Jana Martinčeková, after completing her studies at the Gymnasium in Rajc nad Rajčankou, graduated from the Faculty of Law of the P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, where she was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). At the same time, she passed the rigorous examination at the same faculty in 2000 and was awarded the title of JUDr.

From 1994 to 1996 she worked as a judicial clerk at the Regional Court in Banská Bystrica, then from 1997 to 2009 as a judge of the Žilina District Court. In 2007, she was temporarily assigned to perform the function of a judge at the Regional Court in Žilina. From 2009 until 2020 she worked at the Regional Court in Žilina as a single judge and a member of a panel with a focus on administrative justice, then from 2013 as a presiding judge in the administrative and civil sections with a focus on the enforcement agenda. Since 2020, she has held the position of President of the Administrative Chamber of the Regional Court in Žilina. In 2021, she moved to the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, where she was temporarily assigned to perform the function of a judge at the Administrative Chamber.

JUDr. Michal Matulník, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 26 August 2021 and as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 15 December 2022.

Michal Matulník is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). He defended his rigorous thesis at the Department of Commercial Law of the same faculty in 2000 and was awarded the title of JUDr. In 2003 he completed a two-year postgraduate course in English and EU law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Cambridge. In 2021 he completed his doctoral studies at the Department of Theory of Law and Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Trnava.

He started his career in law in 1996, where he worked as a legal assistant for the first two years and later as a law clerk. Since 2002 he has worked as an attorney at law in cooperation with several international law firms, then in his own legal practice. From 2003 to 2005 as well as from 2019 to 2021 he worked as an advisor to a judge of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic.

Michal Matulník has published in domestic professional journals, especially in the field of constitutional law.

Mgr. Michal Novotný has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 20 August 2021 and as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 1 June 2022.

Michal Novotný is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava, where in 2006 he was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). From 2009 to 2014 he also completed his university studies at the Johannes Keppler University in Linz.

He started his career in law – he passed the bar exam in 2009 and worked as an attorney at law from 2010 to 2014. From 2012 to 2014 he also worked as a judicial advisor at the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic. Between 2014 and 2020 he entered the judiciary, in the first years as a judge of the District Court in Dunajská Streda, and later as a judge of the Regional Court in Trnava. From 2020 to 2021 he was State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic.

Since 2019, he has also been an external member of the teaching staff of the Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic. He has participated in international workshops and conferences on the application of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including as a lecturer. He has also published in domestic and foreign professional journals.

JUDr. Vlastimil Pavlikovský graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1993 – 1998.

In 1998 – 2004 he worked as a judicial trainee at the Regional Court in Bratislava. In 2004 – 2007 he was a judge at the District Court Bratislava II. In 2007 – 2010 he was the Head of the Service Office at the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic. Subsequently, he worked at the Administrative Chamber of the Regional Court in Bratislava as a judge, as the President of the Panel and finally as the President of the Administrative Chamber. Since 2023 he has worked at the Regional Court in Bratislava as a judge of the Commercial Chamber and the President of the Panel. He was temporarily assigned to the position of judge at the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from October 1, 2024.

He became a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic on January 1, 2026.

Prof. JUDr. PhDr. Peter Potásch, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 26 August 2021 and as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic from 1 June 2022.

Peter Potásch is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where he was awarded the master’s degree (Mgr.). He received his Doctor of Laws (JUDr.) degree in 2004 and his PhDr. in Political Science from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Constantine the Philosopher in 2010. Later, in 2009, he received the degree of philosophiae doctor (PhD.). In 2012 he successfully passed the habilitation procedure and was awarded the scientific-pedagogical title of associate professor. He was – after a successful inauguration procedure – appointed professor in the field of administrative law by the President of the Slovak Republic in 2019.

After completing his studies, he worked at the Academy of the Police Corps in Bratislava (Institute of Further Education, or the Department of Administrative Law/Department of Public Administration) until 2009, and since 2009 he has been working as an internal lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Pan-European University in Bratislava (Institute of Public Law – Department of Administrative Law, Financial Law and Environmental Law). His professional cooperation is also linked to the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, especially within the framework of the 3rd level of university studies in the field of “administrative law”, or within habilitation/inauguration proceedings. At the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava, he is currently a member of the Commission for the Evaluation of Scientific and Research Activities and Habilitation and Inauguration Proceedings (as an advisory body to the Dean of the Faculty in matters of science and research). From 2010 to 2014 he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Vienna, where he taught administrative law of selected EU countries in a comparative mode.

He has been practicing law since 2009 – first as a trainee attorney and from 2012 until his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic – as an attorney at law.

In the past he was a member of several review commissions, e.g. at the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic, at the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, as well as at the Office for Public Procurement.

He is a member of the editorial boards of several domestic and international professional and scientific journals (e.g. Správní právo, Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, Institutiones Administrationis (Journal of Administrative Sciences), Széchényi University, Hungary, Central and Eastern European Legal Studies, European Public Law Organization, Greece, etc.). He has also completed numerous foreign working, study and lecturing stays (Czech Republic, Portugal, Latvia, Iceland, Mexico, etc.) and has been a principal investigator or co-investigator of several national and international scientific research projects/grants, including those funded from public sources (APVV).

As a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic, he has been nominated to several examination boards (bar exams – Slovak Bar Association, judicial exams – Judicial Academy of the Slovak Republic, exams of authorised persons/registered persons – Office for Public Procurement).

He is the author or co-author of several publications (including monographs) focusing on both substantive administrative law and administrative procedural law – in particular general administrative proceedings.

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JUDr. Petra Príbelská, PhD. has been serving as a judge and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021.

Petra Príbelská graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1997, where she was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). She passed her rigorous examination in 2001 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava and was awarded the title of JUDr. She completed her postgraduate doctoral studies in 2008 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava in the field of civil procedural law and the topic of her dissertation was evidence in civil procedure.

Since 1998 she has been working as a law clerk, since 2003 as an advocate. From 2001 to 2011, she worked at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava as a university lecturer at the Department of Civil and Commercial Law, where she taught civil procedural law. In 2004, she became a judge, starting at the Trnava District Court, where she worked in the civil and commercial section. She has been working as a judge in the administrative justice system since 2006, first as a judge temporarily assigned to the Regional Court in Trnava (where she practiced simultaneously in the civil and administrative sections), then in 2007 as a judge of the Regional Court in Trnava in the administrative section, and since 2010 as the president of the panel. Since 2012, she has been the President of the Administrative Chamber of the Regional Court in Bratislava. In 2014, she was temporarily assigned to the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, from 2015 she served as a judge there, from 2017 to 2021 as the President of the Panel.

From 2014 to January 2017, she served as a member of the first instance Disciplinary panel of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic. From January 2017 to November 2020, she was a member of the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic. From November 2019 to November 2023, she was a member of the Judicial Council of the Slovak Republic elected by the judges.

Petra Príbelská is the author of numerous articles in the fields of civil law, administrative justice and financial law. She is a member of the author team of the commentary to the Administrative Procedure Code and co-author of the textbook Civil Procedural Law, Volume II. She served on the editorial board of the journal Taxes in Judicial Practice and Bulletin of Tax Advisors. She was a member of the recodification subcommittee for the creation of the new Administrative Procedure Code.

JUDr. Zuzana Šabová, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 20 July 2021 and since 21 June 2024 as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

Zuzana Šabová is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where she was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). She also completed her doctoral studies at the same faculty and was awarded the scientific-pedagogical degree of PhD. in 2020 based on a successful defence of her dissertation on the topic “The Relationship between European and Slovak Competition Law”. She is still involved in scientific, research and teaching activities at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava.

From 2000 to 2018 she worked at the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic. She joined the Office as a lawyer in 2000, from 2003 she worked as the Director of the Second Instance Proceedings Department, and later as the Director of the Legal and Foreign Relations Department. She was mainly engaged in the assessment of cases of agreements restricting competition, abuse of dominant position and merger control, preparation of competition legislation, development of conceptual and methodological materials and representation of the Office in foreign forums (EU, OECD). In 2018, she joined the office of the Civil Service Council and in 2019 she was elected as a member of the Council on the proposal of the Council of the Government of the Slovak Republic for Non-Governmental Non-Profit Organisations. She has worked mainly on ethics in the civil service and several areas of civil service management.

Zuzana Šabová is the author of numerous articles in the field of competition law and civil service. She has also spoken in these areas at professional events in Slovakia and abroad. She has also worked as an ethics advisor for selection procedures for the Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic and has conducted ethics trainings for several institutions. She has completed several professional study-stays abroad focused on state administration management, competition law and anti-corruption.

JUDr. Viola Takáčová, PhD. has been serving as a judge and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021.

Viola Takáčová graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague in 1986. In 1987 she passed the rigorous examination at the Faculty of Law and received the degree of JUDr. From 2006 to 2010 she completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in the field of administrative law, where she was awarded the scientific-pedagogical degree of PhD.

She entered the judiciary in 1990 at the District Court in Komárno, where she worked until 1998, first as a judicial clerk, and since 1991 as a judge. In 1997, she joined the Regional Court in Nitra, temporarily assigned to the commercial section, and since 1998 as a judge of the commercial section, the civil section and the administrative section. From 2008 to 2021, she worked at the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, first as a temporary assignment to the Administrative Chamber, and since 2016 as a judge.

Viola Takáčová completed a two-semester specialised study programme in “Business and Commerce” at the Institute for the Education of Lawyers at the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague between 1995 and 1996. From 2001 to 2016 she was also an external lecturer at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra.

JUDr. Martin Tiso has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 21 November 2022.

Martin Tiso is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Trnava in Trnava. He graduated in 2011 and was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). In 2012, he defended his rigorous thesis at the Department of Commercial Law of the faculty and was awarded the title of JUDr. In 2017, he successfully passed the professional judicial examination.

From 2011 to 2015 he worked at the Regional Court in Trnava as a clerk with a position at the Commercial Law Chamber. Later, from 2016 to 31 July 2021, he worked at the Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic as an assistant of a judge in a panel initially specialised in the general and social agenda and since 2018 exclusively in the social agenda.

From 1 August 2021 until his appointment as a judge, he worked at the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic as an assistant to a judge in a panel specialised in the general and social agenda.

Prof. JUDr. Juraj Vačok, PhD. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 20 July 2021 and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 15 December 2022.

Juraj Vačok is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, where in 2006 he was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). He also completed his doctoral studies at the same faculty and was awarded a PhD. degree in 2009 following the successful defence of his dissertation on the topic of “Administrative Justice”. Since the completion of his studies in the third degree, he has been working at the Department of Administrative and Environmental Law of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, first as a researcher, since 2012 as an assistant professor, since 2015 as an associate professor and since 2021 as a professor. In his research activities, he mainly deals with administrative procedure and administrative justice.

From 2006 to 2021 he was a trainee lawyer, passing the bar exam with distinction in 2010. In the past, he has also served as a member of boards of appeals and as a member of the State Commission on Elections and Control of Political Party Financing. From 2018 to 2021, he also held the post of a candidate member of the selection commission for the selection procedure for the post of judge appointed by the Minister of Justice of the Slovak Republic.

Juraj Vačok is the author and co-author of several scientific articles, university textbooks, commentaries and the monograph “Selected Institutes of Legality Protection in First Instance Administrative Proceedings”. In the past he has also worked at other universities.

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JUDr. Monika Valašiková, PhD., LL.M. has been serving as a judge and the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 1 August 2021.

Monika Valašiková is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava, from which she graduated in 1989 and was awarded the title of JUDr. In 1991 she passed the state arbitration examination. Between 2006 and 2010 she completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava and was awarded a PhD. degree.

Since 1989 she worked as a trainee at the State Arbitration Court for the capital city of the Slovak Republic – Bratislava, later after passing the arbitration exam as a state arbitrator. In 1992, she joined the Regional Court in Bratislava as a judge, and since 2007 she has been serving as the president of the administrative section of the court. From 2017 to 2021, she worked at the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic, first as a judge of the Administrative Chamber, and since 2016 as the President of the Panel.

Monika Valašiková has been a member of the Judicial Council of the Supreme Court of the Slovak Republic since 2020 and is currently a member of the Judicial Council of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

JUDr. Juraj Vališ, LL.M. has been serving as a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 20 July 2021 and as the President of the Panel of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic since 15 December 2022.

Juraj Vališ is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, where he was awarded master’s degree (Mgr.). He also studied at the Institute for Austrian and International Tax Law at the University of Vienna, where he received his LL.M. degree in 2007.

Since the beginning of his career, he has worked in tax and financial law, both in an international consulting company as an assistant tax advisor and in a law firm as a law clerk. He has also worked as head of the legal and compliance department of a securities dealer. In 2006 he passed the exam for tax consultancy and in 2008 he passed the bar exam. From 2008 to July 2021, he was an attorney and tax advisor in his own law practice focused on providing legal services in the areas of financial, business and tax law.

Juraj Vališ is engaged in teaching activities at the Faculty of Economic Informatics of the University of Economics in Bratislava, where he conducts professional seminars in the field of tax administration and international taxation. He also carries out educational activities within the Slovak Chamber of Tax Advisors, where he also served as the head of the Methodological and Legislative Commission for Tax Administration and Local Taxes.

Eva Vékonyová graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava (1998), where she also passed the rigorous examination and was awarded the title of JUDr. (2002). She initially worked in advocacy. In 2003, she passed the bar exam and was registered as a lawyer.

From June 2005 to 2014, she was a judge at the District Court in Trenčín in the civil section. Subsequently, in 2014, she was transferred to the Regional Court in Trenčín, where she was a member of the Administrative Chamber of this court until 2023. During the years 2024 to 2025, she was temporarily assigned to the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic.

She became a judge of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Slovak Republic on 1 January 2026.