The author analyses a complaint against a violation of law as the specific revision procedure in the Criminal Procedure Code of the Czech Republic. The author describes the general elements of procedure in connection with the purpose of revision procedures in the criminal procedure, including the role of ministry of justice and Supreme Court of the Czech Republic. The author concludes that a complaint against a violation of law helps to respect the fundamental principles of criminal procedures, to provide high level of rule of law and to prevent errors in practice. It is a major purpose of the remedy and it’s the specific because other remedies (appeal, extraordinary appeal and etc) have own major purposes: the review and rectification of legal and factual defects.