The applicant, Suverénní řád Maltézských rytířů – České velkopřevorství, is an ecclesiastical unit of the Roman Catholic Church with legal personality. In 1945, some of its immovable property and land was the subject of several confiscation notices (konfiskační vyhlášky) issued under Presidential Decree no. 12/1945, which provided for immediate confiscation, without compensation, of agricultural property owned by people or companies/corporations who had intentionally served the German war machine for fascist or Nazi purposes. In April 1948 the applicant’s property was further subjected to the expropriation procedure under Law no. 142/1947. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
ECHR: Suverénní řád Maltézských rytířů – České velkopřevorství v. the Czech Republic (application no. 15440/22)
11. September 2025 — Dr. Georg NeureitherECHR: Rybářství Třeboň a.s. and Rybářství Třeboň Hld. a.s. v. the Czech Republic (applications nos. 18037/19 and 33175/22)
7. November 2024 — Dr. Georg NeureitherThe 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. Den Rest des Beitrags lesen »
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