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General Terms and Conditions: Why Copying Them Will Cost You Dearly
Copying another company’s general terms and conditions (algemene voorwaarden) is risky on three separate legal grounds, and those risks are cumulative rather than alternatives. First, terms drafted with an original structure and wording enjoy copyright protection under the Dutch Copyright
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The clauses that make a Dutch shareholders’ agreement worth having are the ones that decide
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Most legal costs in the Netherlands are incurred after something has gone wrong that a
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Dutch contract law rests on freedom: freedom to contract or not, freedom to choose the
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A divorce in the Netherlands always goes through the court. There is no administrative route
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Most Dutch employment disputes are decided long before a court is involved — in the
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