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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
Dismissing a company director is not an ordinary dismissal, and the first question is which
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Publishing a photograph of an identifiable person is governed by two rights that exist side
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In divorce mediation the parties negotiate their own settlement with the help of an impartial
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Redundancy in the Netherlands is not about the employee but about the job. An employer
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Dutch law draws a line between an opinion, however sharp, and an attack on someone’s
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In the Netherlands a landlord can never evict a tenant on his own authority. Eviction
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An electronic signature has the same legal effect as a handwritten one in the Netherlands,
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When circumstances change dramatically after a lease has been signed, Dutch law offers one route:
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A bankruptcy application is a powerful tool for debt collection. If a debtor does not
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A divorce in the Netherlands can be arranged almost entirely at a distance. The petition
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A summons is the document by which civil proceedings are started: it states the claim,
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A contact arrangement recorded in a parenting plan or in a court decision is binding
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