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Commercial cases in Czechia
In 2025, Czech courts published 1,010 decisions in commercial cases, 1.6% of all published decisions, 32% fewer than in 2024. All of them come from a single court, the Vrchní soud v Praze.
- Published decisions in 20251,010−32% over one year
- Courts with decisions11 high court
- Share of all published decisions1.6%in 2025
- Decisions since 20207,454published from 2020 to 2025
Courts
The table lists the courts that published decisions of this family in 2025, with the number of decisions, the change over one year and the weight of the court in the family.
In 2025, a single court published decisions of this family: the Vrchní soud v Praze, with 1,010 decisions.
| Court | Type | Decisions 2025 | Change | Since 2020 | Share of the family |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vrchní soud v Praze | High | 1,010 | −32% | 7,320 | 100% |
By tier of court
Courts are grouped by tier: district courts, regional courts and high courts. The table gives, for each tier, the number of courts with decisions of this family and their decisions in 2025 and since 2020.
In 2025, all 1,010 decisions of this family come from high courts. The high courts account for 98% of the 7,454 decisions of this family since 2020. This family represents 94% of the decisions of high courts published in 2025, against 1.6% for all tiers.
- District courts0decisions in 2025; 0 courts
- Regional courts0decisions in 2025; 0 courts
- High courts1,010decisions in 2025; 1 court
| Tier | Courts in 2025 | Decisions 2025 | Share of the family | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| District courts | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0 |
| Regional courts | 0 | 0 | 0% | 134 |
| High courts | 1 | 1,010 | 100% | 7,320 |
Decisions year by year
This chart follows, year by year, the decisions of this family published by each type of court. The volume measures what has been published, not the cases filed in the same year.
From 2020 to 2025, Czech courts published 7,454 decisions in commercial cases. The yearly number peaked at 1,645 in 2021 and was 1,010 in 2025, against 1,480 in 2024. The family made up between 0.8% and 3.0% of the decisions published each year.
- Regional courts
- High courts
| Year | District courts | Regional courts | High courts | Total | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 0 | 6 | 445 | 451 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | 117 | 1,528 | 1,645 | +265% |
| 2022 | 0 | 9 | 1,441 | 1,450 | −12% |
| 2023 | 0 | 1 | 1,417 | 1,418 | −2% |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1,479 | 1,480 | +4% |
| 2025 | 0 | 0 | 1,010 | 1,010 | −32% |
Years are the years of the decisions; series start in 2020.
Understanding these figures
What commercial cases cover
Commercial cases are those recorded in the commercial registers of the courts, which deal with business disputes and commercial-register matters. Only a few courts publish decisions in this family.
Which courts publish them
In 2025, decisions in commercial cases were published by a single court, a high court.
What counts as a decision
Each published decision counts as one, whatever its form: a judgment, a ruling on an appeal or an order. One case can produce several decisions, in the same court or in successive ones. The figures count the decisions published in the open-data collection of the Czech courts; they do not count cases, and they are not every decision issued.
Yearly volumes
Between 2020 and 2025 the yearly number of decisions in commercial cases ranges from 451 in 2020 to 1,645 in 2021. All decisions together range from 15,224 to 175,346 over the same years, so a change from one year to the next says little about the number of cases in the courts.
Reading the figures with care
The collection holds no outcome for these decisions, so no dismissal rate or success rate is shown. No statistic can predict the outcome of a particular case.
Frequently asked questions
How many commercial decisions do Czech courts publish?
In 2025, Czech courts published 1,010 decisions in commercial cases, 1.6% of all published decisions, 32% fewer than in 2024. Since 2020, the collection holds 7,454 decisions.
What do commercial cases cover?
Commercial cases are those recorded in the commercial registers of the courts, which deal with business disputes and commercial-register matters. Only a few courts publish decisions in this family.
Which court publishes commercial decisions?
In 2025, all the decisions of this family come from the Vrchní soud v Praze (1,010).
How have the published commercial decisions changed since 2020?
Published decisions in commercial cases by year: 451 in 2020, 1,645 in 2021, 1,450 in 2022, 1,418 in 2023, 1,480 in 2024, 1,010 in 2025. The yearly figure follows the number of decisions published and not the number of cases.