18 January 2016 - Marc Wolters
SNS Bank and Rabobank liable for damage due to violation of special duty of care

In two rulings on 29 December 2015, the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal concluded that SNS Bank and Rabobank were liable for violating the special duty of care which the banks had. Both banks had provided very large mortgages to the aggrieved ...

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2 December 2015 - Marijn Kingma
Court rules in favour of foodwatch in horsemeat scandal case

The Amsterdam District Court rendered a judgment today in the appeal by the independent, non‑profit organisation foodwatch against the Dutch State Secretary for Economic Affairs. The issue in this lawsuit was whether the Netherlands Food and ...

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21 September 2015 - Marnix van den Bergh
Confusing legal terms for contract termination in Dutch and English

My practice involves legal matters to which Dutch law is applicable, both nationally and internationally. As such, either or even both of the parties involved may not understand the Dutch language, and contracts I draft may be in English as often ...

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15 September 2015 - Joep Meddens
Lawyers indispensable to innovation (and vice versa)

Innovation is as popular as ever. The government has programmes to stimulate it and the private sector keeps hammering on the importance of it. Rightly so: modern society benefits from the profusion of new solutions to the problems it faces. ...

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20 August 2015 - News
First judgments on the Dutch Work and Security Act

A great deal has been said and written about the Dutch Work and Security Act (Wet Werk en Zekerheid) (“WWZ”). It was expected that the act would make it harder to dismiss employees, because employers would have to use a restrictive list of ...

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13 July 2015 - News
Amsterdam Court of Appeal orders ABN AMRO to compensate damage on account of excessive lending

In an action brought by the Foundation for Victims of Home Equity Products (GOWP), the Amsterdam Court of Appeal recently ordered ABN AMRO to compensate the damage suffered by victims on account of excessive lending. In this ruling, the Court of ...

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18 June 2015 - Paul Jongen
Registration of shareholders/beneficial owners

If you are the beneficial owner of an interest (or shareholding) of 25% or more in a legal entity, then that interest will soon have to be registered in a new public database. This database will be accessible to civil-law notaries, banks, ...

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15 June 2015 - News
What if a contracting party is claiming to have an employment contract?

An employment contract provides quite a lot of employee protection, and if the employment contract is terminated involuntarily, the employer must often provide the employee with a severance payment. These are two reasons why employees find a ...

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14 April 2015 - News
Four frequently made errors in employment contracts

Many errors are made in employment contracts. In what follows, I will discuss four frequently made errors and I will make some suggestions for avoiding such errors and for strengthening the content of the employment contract.

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16 March 2015 - News
Silence is Golden?

They arrive out of the blue. Authorities such as the Netherlands Competition Authority, the Tax and Customs Administration, a public prosecutor. Should your employees speak or can they remain silent?

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9 February 2015 - Marnix van den Bergh
Conducting business ‘neutrally’ with international purchase and other contracts

The perspective of company lawyers is influenced by the legal system in which they operate. Internationally, the differences in legal points of view are large. When it comes to Anglo-American practice, the adage ‘bigger is better’ applies to ...

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19 January 2015 - News
Dutch State pays Stichting Thuiskopie 33.5 million euros

Stichting de Thuiskopie (the Dutch collecting society for private copying levies) and the State of the Netherlands have ended their long-standing dispute about the phasing out of the statutory regulation on home tape levies (thuiskopieregeling). ...

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