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
A criminal conviction can cost a foreign national their Dutch residence permit, but not automatically:
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The cost of a divorce in the Netherlands depends mainly on how far you and
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Confiscation of proceeds of crime in the Netherlands works in two stages: during the investigation
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Almost every commercial lease in the Netherlands is based on a model of the Real
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Assault (mishandeling) under Dutch law is intentionally causing someone pain or injury, or intentionally harming
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The 30% ruling (30%-regeling, now also called the expat scheme or expatregeling) allows a Dutch
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An open source licence is a copyright licence with conditions: under the Dutch Copyright Act
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If a Dutch public authority refuses your permit, withdraws a subsidy or imposes an enforcement
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Every employee in the Netherlands accrues at least four times their weekly working hours in
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If your building is connected to a district heating network (warmtenet), the Heat Act (Warmtewet)
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The General Administrative Law Act (Algemene wet bestuursrecht, Awb) governs almost every dealing you have
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Before you install charge points in the Netherlands, check two things: whether your grid connection
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