On Thursday last week the Court of Justice of the European Union decided that a court may base its jurisdiction in respect of an action for a negative declaration in matters relating to tort, delict or quasi-delict on
Höcker Advocaten represented Ageas (the parent company of the former FORTIS Group, currently an international insurance company) in various disputes with the Dutch State and ABN AMRO, which were settled in June 2012 by a
The Amsterdam Court of Appeal recently ruled that the price comparison firm PR Aviation was entitled to reproduce on its own website the price lists and departure times published on the Ryanair website, without Ryanair's permission.
What characterises attachment law is its territorial operation. The Dutch courts can, in principle, only grant leave for attachment of assets that are located in the Netherlands.
Despite the economic crisis, the Netherlands remains attractive to knowledge migrants. In 2011 5,800 knowledge migrants from outside Europe came to the Netherlands.
Fraud is an increasingly complex problem in the modern world. Perpetrators are now assisted by the latest communications technology, and the crimes themselves invariably cross national borders. However, the services available to fight fraud are also better than ever.
The Dutch legal system does not have the legal phenomenon of asset tracing as it is known in common law legal systems. An owner may sometimes indeed recover his goods from an acquiring party in bad faith...
