Debt relief is by far the most frequent way of resolving insolvency under Czech law. According to statistics, as many as 26,482 insolvency petitions proposing debt relief (approximately 90% of all insolvency petitions) were filed in 2016. However, with the current headcount of judicial personnel, courts are substantially loaded with the high number of debt-relief cases. In this respect, the amendment to the Insolvency Act – that came into effect on 1 July 2017 – aims, among other things, to decrease the work load of the courts.