Expert Legal Insights from Law & More
Explore in-depth articles on Dutch law, landmark cases, and practical legal guidance – written by our specialist attorneys in Eindhoven and Amsterdam
- Home
- Insights
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
A divorce in the Netherlands is granted on one ground only: that the marriage has
- Reading time: 3 min
An arrest in the Netherlands sets a fixed sequence of periods running, and knowing where
- Reading time: 3 min
Whether you need a lawyer in the Netherlands depends on the court and on the
- Reading time: 2 min
A lawyer in the Netherlands advises, negotiates and litigates, and in defined proceedings is the
- Reading time: 5 min
The transition payment is owed when an employment contract is ended at the employer’s initiative,
- Reading time: 3 min
The Bankruptcy Act governs three procedures. Bankruptcy is a general attachment on the debtor’s assets
- Reading time: 4 min
General purchase conditions are the standard terms a business applies when it buys goods or
- Reading time: 10 min
This article is about judgments given by foreign courts. For arbitral awards, including an award
- Reading time: 4 min
An earn-out makes part of the purchase price dependent on the results the business achieves
- Reading time: 3 min
Where divorcing parents can communicate, almost everything else becomes cheaper and faster: a parenting plan
- Reading time: 5 min
If you believe a court, a judge or a member of court staff has not
- Reading time: 2 min
The climate case against Shell produced two judgments with very different outcomes. In 2021 the
- Reading time: 5 min
