High court to take up Golden Kids appeal

Prague’s High Court on Monday will take up an appeal in a case surrounding the cancellation of the Golden Kids tour, featuring performers Helena Vondráčková, Václav Neckář and Marta Kubišová. Ms Vondráčková and her husband, Martin Michal, who own a promotion company, are suing for 1.3 million crowns in damages that the tour never went ahead. They have maintained that although no contract was ever signed, there was a verbal agreement between the three performers. Earlier, the lower instance court dismissed the case on the grounds that there was no evidence that any agreement had been broken. A number of public figures signed an open letter to Helena Vondráčková expressing disappointment she was pursuing legal action against Mrs Kubišová, among them former president Václav Havel and former prime minister Jan Fischer.