Religion – Weltanschauung – Recht [ RWR ]

The applicants, Rybářství Třeboň a.s. and Rybářství Třeboň Hld. a.s, are two companies registered in the Czech Republic. In the 1990s some fishponds and land located in Novosedly nad Nežárkou and Lutová which had been seized by the communist regime from two Roman Catholic Church parishes were privatized and came into the ownership of the applicant companies. The case concerns the annulment without compensation of the privatisation and the property’s return to the Catholic Church.

Relying on Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention on Human Right and Article 6 § 1 (right to a fair trial) of the European Convention, the applicant companies complain, in particular, of the dispossession of the property, and of inadequate reasoning in the relevant court decisions.

• No violation of Article 1 of Protocol No. 1

Press release ECHR 258 (2024) 07.11.2024