Do bank guarantees provide security for underlying legal relationship?
In the Netherlands, bank guarantees are common financing arrangements and are ...
Reputational damage due to negativity on Facebook?
Nowadays, reputational damage due to incorrect statements on the internet is a ...
Muslim slaughterhouse sues State for instructions on slaughtering
Shortly before last month’s Feast of Sacrifice, a Muslim slaughterhouse instituted ...
Suspension of non-competition clause in a franchise agreement
A franchisor defaults on the franchise agreement with his franchisees. The franchisees ...
Marital attachment of spouse’s shares in BV: is that possible?
Marital attachment is a special type of preservation order that one of the spouses ...
Company has duty of care towards minority shareholder in The Netherlands
According to recent Dutch corporate case law a company has a special duty of care ...
Judgement: Contractor infringes an architect’s copyright
It is not unusual that a contractor is declared bankrupt during a construction ...
Imputable shortcoming when acquiring a company?
In this case, the acquiror of a company claims the seller is liable for not mentioning ...
If you have received a summons: advice from a Dutch lawyer
If a party has a monetary money claim against another party, but the other party ...
Suspension non-competition clause in a franchise agreement
When you start a franchise in the Netherlands, you will probably sign a post-contractual ...
Bank in breach of duty of care in the case of excessive lending?
In the current economic climate, more and more people in the Netherlands have ...
Director personally liable for debt to creditor?
Creditor X was ordered by the Dutch court to pay more than € 45,000 to a private ...
Prohibition on eviction commercial space in enforcement dispute possible?
In the Netherlands if a judgement has been declared provisionally enforceable, ...
Unlawful trademark infringement via Google Adwords
We previously published a blog about an IP action involving the same issue as ...
Shareholders’ agreement decisive in conflict
In January 2014, the judge hearing the application for interim relief at the Amsterdam ...
Cocaine-using employee receives maximum redundancy pay
The Court of Appeal, The Hague, took the view that an employee who had taken hard ...
Infringement Victoria’s Secret’s trademark rights via Marktplaats.nl
Lingerie company Victoria’s Secret discovered that imitations of their products ...
Demand letters: always get proof of delivery!
You can prevent the expiration of a claim by sending a demand letter to the debtor. ...
Legal allocation sequence in collection claim
If a claim for payment of an amount of money is not complied with, the claim increases. ...
