ABSTRACT
Legal contradictions, political conflicts and moral disillusionment accompany the
processes of constitution-making, legislative acts and judicial decisions. Laws
originally intended to support public morality create new moral controversies and
political confrontations. Retrospective measures of legal restitution are justified
as prospective governmental policies by courts, to avoid possible conflicts with
privatization laws enacted during the process of post-communist economic
transformations. Institutions of the democratic rule of law are supported by vetting
laws effectively breaching the constitutional principle of equal treatment of all
citizens and inflicting new harms on victims of the old communist regime.
