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Lennard Noordzij

District Court of Amsterdam acknowledges English judgement

On 13 July 2023, the District Court of Amsterdam ruled in the case of ADS ...

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Onno Hennis

Courts must make case details and hearing dates public

Groundbreaking ruling In a groundbreaking ruling, the Supreme Court has ruled ...

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Onno Hennis

The squatters of the villa in Amsterdam of a Russian oligarch are allowed to stay by the Dutch court.

The judge in preliminary proceedings of the Amsterdam Court has yesterday dismissed ...

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Onno Hennis

Obtaining of a copy of a confidential arbitral award by a third party

One of the basic principles of arbitration is that the proceedings and the award ...

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Onno Hennis

How do the Dutch courts deal with documentary evidence in a foreign language?

It frequently happens that a document in a foreign language is used as evidence ...

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Lennard Noordzij

Personal or business suretyship?

A recent case before the Amsterdam Court of Appeal concerns the question of whether ...

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Lennard Noordzij

Conclusive evidential value of a signed agreement

In a recent case the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal ruled on the basis of the ...

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Lennard Noordzij

Directors’ and officers’ liability for tax and pension debts

If an enterprise is in a situation of inability to pay, a director must report ...

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Onno Hennis

Arbitration award between the City of Amsterdam and a ship entrepreneur is maintained

A protracted legal dispute between the City of Amsterdam and entrepreneur X has ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Litigating at the Netherlands Commercial Court: when is a choice of forum clause valid?

Recently, the Netherlands Commercial Court (a court that is part of the Amsterdam ...

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Onno Hennis

Does the assignment of a claim in respect of which arbitration has been agreed lead to a lack of jurisdiction of the court?

Nowadays, parties are increasingly choosing to have their disputes settled by ...

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Onno Hennis

Dutch court stays the enforcement of an arbitration award of USD 622 million against Petrobras

Vantage’s request for permission for the enforcement of an arbitration award requiring ...

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Thomas van Vugt

How are interlocutory proceedings conducted in the Netherlands? A procedural lawyer explains!

In the Netherlands, interlocutory proceedings can be instituted if a party cannot ...

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Thomas van Vugt

How are substantive proceedings conducted with the Civil-Law Sector of a District Court in the Netherlands?

No legal proceedings are ever the same. Interlocutory proceedings, for example, ...

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Thomas van Vugt

How long does it take for a court to pronounce judgment in the Netherlands?

The procedural lawyers of AMS Advocaten in Amsterdam and Naarden regularly publish ...

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Onno Hennis

How does an emergency arbitrator under ICC Rules decide on a request for security?

The Dutch Court in preliminary relief proceedings for lifting attachments put ...

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Onno Hennis

Ruling in summary arbitral proceedings: Skipper must be allowed to return to the helm in the Volvo Ocean Race

Last october, a drama occurred involving Akzo Nobel’s participation in the ...

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Onno Hennis

Enforcement of a Dutch arbitration award is easy!

More and more parties in the Netherlands are deciding to settle their disputes ...

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Onno Hennis

Enforcement of arbitral award: permission of the court required!

In the Netherlands, enforcement of an arbitral award requires the permission of ...

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Marco Guit

Limitation period for an official report; five or twenty years?

During a hearing a Dutch court may establish agreements between parties upon request ...

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