Legal guides
Practical guides to Dutch law, arranged by area of law: from employment and corporate law to family law, immigration, criminal law and real estate. Written by the lawyers of Law & More in Eindhoven and Amsterdam.
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Copying general terms and conditions: the legal risks in the Netherlands
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky under Dutch law on three separate grounds: copyright, unlawful act and the validity of the terms themselves. The exception is short standard phrasing, which is too generic for copyright
If someone spreads a false accusation about you, Dutch law lets you demand removal and
- Reading time: 14 min
Under Dutch and European law an algorithm cannot be criminally responsible, not even partly. Article
- Reading time: 9 min
Alimony becomes “unfair” in the legal sense when circumstances have changed so much that the
- Reading time: 9 min
Collaborative divorce (overlegscheiding) is a way of settling a divorce in which each spouse has
- Reading time: 9 min
If both parents hold parental authority (ouderlijk gezag), you may only move abroad with your
- Reading time: 9 min
A preliminary witness examination (voorlopig getuigenverhoor) is a court hearing in which witnesses are questioned
- Reading time: 8 min
A verbal agreement in commercial transactions is binding under Dutch law. A contract is formed
- Reading time: 14 min
When your Dutch contract partner is declared bankrupt, you become a creditor: you can no
- Reading time: 8 min
A foreign employer that temporarily posts workers to the Netherlands must comply with the Posted
- Reading time: 7 min
If you and your spouse also run a general partnership (vennootschap onder firma, VOF) together,
- Reading time: 13 min
Dutch law recognises no separate category of “workplace conflict”, but six patterns matter legally: task,
- Reading time: 12 min
The right to inspect evidence lets a party to a Dutch civil dispute demand access
- Reading time: 8 min
