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3. 11. 2025 · Significant Matters
HAVEL & PARTNERS Scores Victory at EU Court of Justice in Tax Case Concerning Excise Duty on Ethyl AlcoholHAVEL & PARTNERS won an EU preliminary ruling exempting a Czech producer's ethyl-alcohol-based food flavourings from excise duty, confirming that conditioning the Article 27(1)(e) exemption on demonstrated end-use rather than intended purpose…
10. 8. 2023 · Significant Matters
Representing US domain registration company GoDaddy Inc. in a dispute over the removal of online contentHAVEL & PARTNERS successfully defended US domain registrar GoDaddy Inc. in Czech courts against a lawsuit by a Russia-linked businessman seeking removal of investigative articles and damages, in a precedent-setting ruling on…
3. 5. 2021 · Articles and Interviews
Good Times Ahead in the Shadow of Social Changes and the Corona CrisisSlovak lawyer Štěpán Štarha argues the pandemic accelerated legal-service innovation such as remote work and digital communication, while a wave of corruption prosecutions of judges, police chiefs and the former attorney general…
15. 4. 2021 · Significant Matters
Constitutional Court upholds HAVEL & PARTNERS’ complaint in telecommunications disputeHAVEL & PARTNERS won a Constitutional Court case for telecom operator České Radiokomunikace, overturning Supreme Court rulings that would have required removal of a TV translator station, confirming that statutory easements for…
18. 1. 2021 · Publications and newsletters
Ten main changes under the new Act on ExpertsFrom 1 January 2021 the new Act on Experts, Expert Offices and Expert Institutes replaced the 1967 Experts Act, introducing an “expert offices” category, stricter opinion requirements, mandatory liability insurance and new…
8. 6. 2020 · Publications and newsletters
A fundamental decision of the Regional Court in Brno in connection with the Public Procurement Act and the purchase of shares, business shares and businessesThe Regional Court in Brno ruled on 27 May 2020 that buying shares, business shares or businesses falls outside the Public Procurement Act, quashing the Office for the Protection of Competition's 2018…
3. 9. 2019 · Articles and Interviews
Ground-breaking Czech Supreme Court decision on balance-sheet insolvencyThe Czech Supreme Court ruled that balance-sheet insolvency (over-indebtedness) requires only one creditor with a past-due claim, not two as previously assumed, reversing a Prague High Court decision that had dismissed an…
29. 8. 2018 · Articles and Interviews
Permits issued under the Building Code and passage of rights arising from these permits to legal successorsUnder Czech case-law, zoning decisions and building permits are decisions in rem that automatically transfer to a new property owner on change of ownership, without any separate assignment agreement, as confirmed by…
