Sander Schouten

Do bank guarantees provide security for underlying legal relationship?

In the Netherlands, bank guarantees are common financing arrangements and are ...

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Thomas van Vugt
Dutch media law

Reputational damage due to negativity on Facebook?

Nowadays, reputational damage due to incorrect statements on the internet is a ...

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Sander Schouten

Muslim slaughterhouse sues State for instructions on slaughtering

Shortly before last month’s Feast of Sacrifice, a Muslim slaughterhouse instituted ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Suspension of non-competition clause in a franchise agreement

A franchisor defaults on the franchise agreement with his franchisees. The franchisees ...

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Hidde Reitsma

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 ...

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Marco Guit

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 ...

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Marco Guit

Judgement: Contractor infringes an architect’s copyright

It is not unusual that a contractor is declared bankrupt during a construction ...

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Marco Guit

Imputable shortcoming when acquiring a company?

In this case, the acquiror of a company claims the seller is liable for not mentioning ...

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Hidde Reitsma

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 ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Suspension non-competition clause in a franchise agreement

When you start a franchise in the Netherlands, you will probably sign a post-contractual ...

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Hidde Reitsma

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 ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Director personally liable for debt to creditor?

Creditor X was ordered by the Dutch court to pay more than € 45,000 to a private ...

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Sander Schouten

Prohibition on eviction commercial space in enforcement dispute possible?

In the Netherlands if a judgement has been declared provisionally enforceable, ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Unlawful trademark infringement via Google Adwords

We previously published a blog about an IP action involving the same issue as ...

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Onno Hennis
General

Golfer hits player on the head with golf ball: liable or own risk?

Golf may seem less dangerous than, say, football, but according to Golf Digest, ...

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Marco Guit

Shareholders’ agreement decisive in conflict

In January 2014, the judge hearing the application for interim relief at the Amsterdam ...

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Sander Schouten

Cocaine-using employee receives maximum redundancy pay

The Court of Appeal, The Hague, took the view that an employee who had taken hard ...

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Hidde Reitsma

Infringement Victoria’s Secret’s trademark rights via Marktplaats.nl

Lingerie company Victoria’s Secret discovered that imitations of their products ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Demand letters: always get proof of delivery!

You can prevent the expiration of a claim by sending a demand letter to the debtor. ...

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Thomas van Vugt

Legal allocation sequence in collection claim

If a claim for payment of an amount of money is not complied with, the claim increases. ...

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