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
An appeal (hoger beroep) in a Dutch criminal case means that the court of appeal
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How long a divorce takes in the Netherlands depends mainly on one thing: whether you
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You do not need your partner’s consent to divorce in the Netherlands. If your partner
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A traffic offence in the Netherlands can lead to two separate responses at the same
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If you are the victim of a criminal offence in the Netherlands, you do not
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A personality diagnosis is not a legal category: Dutch courts decide on conduct and evidence,
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A criminal case in the Netherlands passes through four main stages: the police investigation, the
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If the IND (Immigration and Naturalisation Service) rejects your application, you can usually challenge that
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If your company wants to bring a highly skilled migrant, a researcher, a student, an
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An association with limited legal capacity (vereniging met beperkte rechtsbevoegdheid), often called an informal association,
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A resolutive condition (ontbindende voorwaarde) in an employment contract is a clause under which the
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A zero-hours contract (nulurencontract) is an on-call contract without an agreed number of working hours:
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