Your queastion could be answered in several ways.
1. Comparing the current made High Power to the Current Made CZ. or
2. Comparing the original High Power made to John Browning specs to the original CZ. Both are no longer made.
In comparing the originals the High Power wins hands down expecially in terms of workmanship and trigger pull (providing you remove the mag safety on the High Power).
The original High Power was made of fine quality forgings and all the CZ's to my knowledge were made of the less desirable castings.
Most stock CZ's have inferior trigger pulls to the High Power (again assuming you remove the mag safety from the High Power.)
The late model CZ's have a passive firing pin safety that will break its sheet metal roll pin if you dry fire it. But on the other hand the late model High Powers will often crack there slides behind the firing pin plate because there is very little metal left behind the plate after the addition of the new passive firing pin safety.
Also the new High Powers are made largely of castings just like the current CZ's.
Both weapons are extremely accurate.
Most Browning produced High Powers have very good workmanship but the currently made and imported FN's have gotten terrible reviews in the workmanship and accuracy department.
My advice is this. If you have the money buy an original High Power made before 1990, they were forged and did not have the hated passive firing pin safety.
If money is a consideration look for an original CZ (the one without the passive firing pin safety) but be prepared to suffer with a very gritty trigger pull. None of the stadard models have a clean breaking trigger. The race guns are a different story but they run substatially more money.
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