zdejší soud

02:10 Apr 7, 2011 

I felt that my answer was pertinent to whatever information I got from the Asker, and I am sure such was the case with everyone else, so....we are all on the same boat.....

02:07 Apr 7, 2011 

yes, but we don't know the whole context - Asker knows ;)

02:02 Apr 7, 2011 

you are correct, of course, in the general sense of the dictionary, but in my view it does not apply to the context of the question

01:57 Apr 7, 2011 

zdejší = local, resident
http://www.eudict.com/?lang=czeeng&word=zdejší

23:12 Apr 6, 2011 

from a stylistic point of view, i could not agree with the usage of a capital letter "C" in the word "Court" as capitals are used only for proper names, not for common names (in comparison e.g. with the German language) but "zdejsi soud/ the Czech Court" is not a proper name of any court, it is only a common noun so stylistically a lowercase should be used as "court".
"the Czech Court" may be misleading for a foreigner unfamiliar with the Czech judicial system as s/he may consider it as an official designation for a specific court and in effort to find "the Czech Court" s/he may come across with a plenty of Czech courts but none Czech Court...
but it may be just a typist error.

21:59 Apr 6, 2011 

the word "relevant" may be redundant in case the title of the court has already been mentioned in the judgement. if this is the case, so "the Czech court" would be perfect as a definite article "the" sufficiently expresses which court (from all Czech courts) is in question. however, let's take into account an opposite alternative - the judgement does not mention the title of the court, only uses "zdejsi soud". then i think it is not gramatically correct to use the definite article "the" as nobody knows which court of all Czech courts "the Czech court" relates to.

18:10 Apr 6, 2011 

You would never for example put the French Court has decided as follows or the German Court has decided - it would be the Bundespatentamt or something - so I think you really are better kicking the "Czech Court" into touch

18:08 Apr 6, 2011 

But you would still have to put in the title of the court (the Czech Patent Court or whatever) becausae otherwise it just sounds weird in English

18:05 Apr 6, 2011 

In that case (patent law) I think Hannah's solution would work

16:51 Apr 6, 2011 

I believe that the 'relevant' is redundant, because the question here is not the correct jurisdiction but a territory.

13:10 Apr 6, 2011 

It is part of the text of a judgment and it is from the field of patent law.

07:29 Apr 6, 2011 

I cannot imagine a situation in which a "Czech court" rules one way on a matter and a "Belgian court" rules another - cases are by nature national and not multinational. Is your "zdejsi soud" part of the text of a legal ruling?

07:26 Apr 6, 2011 

Isn't it a bit weird for various international courts to be ruling on the same matter? When does that happen? Can you give us a bit more context Danita?