Department of Rehabilitation and Redress

Director of the department:  Mgr. Igor Mišík

tel:  + 421 2 59 353 281, fax: + 421 2 59 353 203, e-mail: edita.vargova@justice.sk

1. The scope of competence of the department

   The department handles claims for redress, identifies the group of entitled persons, acquires relevant court files and files on served sentences; searches archival material from the period concerned, identifies the legal basis, the scope and amount of claims and issues decisions on redress; gives material compensation to persons rehabilitated by courts, grants compensations to injured parties for detriment suffered by the decision of state body or its erroneous official procedure; gives pecuniary compensation to mitigate wrong under special laws; represents the Slovak Republic and the Ministry in lawsuits on redress and enforces claimant’s claims according to final court rulings; handles citizens’ claims in the field of redress.

2.Legal provisions related with the agenda of the department

• Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 305/1999 Coll. on the mitigation of certain injustices to persons deported to Nazi and concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps as amended
• Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 105/2002 Coll. on the provision of a single financial contribution to soldiers of Czechoslovak Foreign or Allied Armed Forces and to persons who participated in domestic resistance in the period from 1939 to 1945
• Act No. 58/1969 Coll. on liability for damage caused by the decision of state body or its erroneous official procedure
• Act the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 258/1998 Coll. on compensation of victims of violent crime
• Act No. 119/1990 Coll. on court rehabilitation

    The application of a directly injured person/a person entitled for compensation according to the Act No. 215/2006 Coll. on Compensation of Persons Injured by the Violent Crimes