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
When the public prosecutor decides not to prosecute a criminal offence, or drops a case,
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Legal advice for businesses in the Netherlands comes from four distinct sources: free official information
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Marriage or a registered partnership with a partner from abroad gives you a statutory package
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Buying a business in the Netherlands runs on two legal tracks that meet on completion
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The EU Blue Card gives a highly qualified non-EU worker the right to live and
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A corporate governance framework is the set of rules that determines who in your company
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The orientation year permit (zoekjaar hoogopgeleiden) gives recent graduates and researchers twelve months of free
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If you are a non-EU/EEA national and want to work as a self-employed entrepreneur in
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Challenging a judge in the Netherlands is called wraking: you ask for a judge to
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