Zajác Ševcová, Katarína2025-10-312025-10-3120242695-9976https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/961In: Revista de la Asociación de profesores de derecho procesal de las Universidades Españolas. Valencia : Tirant Lo Blanch, 2024. ISSN 2695-9976. No. 9 (2024), pp. 189-225.The perception of the proceedings as fair is inextricably linked to publicity, transparency, and access of the parties to the court. The principle of orality acts as a counterpart to the principle of literacy, although at present we encounter rather a combination of these elements, and correlates with the other principles of the process. The application of the oral principle in the civil process has obvious advan- tages, it is worth pointing out that in principle, it must be applied in the phases and activities in which it is effective; without necessarily excluding the document from the process as an instrument helpful, sometimes even necessary. Orality on its own is not a guarantee of fair procedure. And if there is an oral element in the proceed- ing, it does not automatically mean that it is an orality. Currently, the principle of orality is confronted with the use of modern technical means of communication and we can see an inclination to written form in the proceedings, either in our country or on a European scale.en© vydavateľinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesscivilné súdne konaniecivil proceduresúdne pojednávaniacourt hearingszásada ústnostiprinciple of oralityArticle