Descendants of J. A. Bata denied compensation for nationalized property by the Constitutional Court
The descendants of Jan Antonín Bat’a, who are seeking compensation for the confiscated villa in Zlín, have not found a defense at the Constitutional Court either. The reasoning of the constitutional judges is not yet known. The dispute will probably go to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. When the Supreme Court rejected the claim of the descendants of J. A. Bata last August, the family’s lawyer Tomáš Pecina said that he expected the family to use all its options. After the Constitutional Court, the Strasbourg court is the last one. “We have not yet received the decision of the Constitutional Court, so I cannot comment on it. But I can say that I am1 not surprised. We will certainly turn to the Human Rights Court,” Pecina said. The heirs of Jan Antonín Bata unsuccessfully demanded CZK 56 million from the Czech state as compensation for the nationalised property.
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