[2025] EWCA Civ 998

Fecha: 28-Jul-2025

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Neutral Citation Number: [2025] EWCA Civ 998

Case Nos: CA-2024-000977, CA-2024-000986 & CA-2024-002663

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)

ON APPEAL FROM THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

KING’S BENCH DIVISION

COMMERCIAL COURT

Mr Justice Foxton

[2024] EWHC 503 (Comm) & [2024] EWHC 2102 (Comm)

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Date: 28/07/2025

Before:

LORD JUSTICE MALES

LORD JUSTICE POPPLEWELL
and

LADY JUSTICE ANDREWS

Between:

CA-2024-000986

THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Respondent

/Claimant

- and -

1) DIAG HUMAN SE

2) JOSEF STAVA

Appellants/

Defendants

And between:

CA-2024-000977 and CA-2024-002663

THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Appellant/

Claimant

- and -

1) DIAG HUMAN SE

2) JOSEF STAVA

Respondents/

Defendants

Lord Verdirame KC, Philip Riches KC, Kate Parlett, Jonathan Ketcheson, & Sam Goodman (instructed by Mishcon de Reya LLP) for Diag Human SE and Mr Stava

Lucas Bastin KC, Peter Webster & Richard Hoyle (instructed by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholar (UK) LLP) for the Czech Republic

Hearing date: 15 July 2025

Approved Judgment

This judgment was handed down remotely at 10.30am on 28 July 2025 by circulation to the parties or their representatives by e-mail and by release to the National Archives.

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