In the near future some significant changes will be made to Dutch corporate law, with the chief aim of achieving greater simplicity and reducing the burden for businesses.

This article will discuss several expected changes that will specifically affect private companies with limited liability (BVs) and public companies with limited liability (NVs). Some of these changes will take effect in the near future. Continue reading “Simplification and reduction of burdens for Dutch companies with share capital”

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), drafted in the immediate wake of the Second World War as a bulwark against the resurgence of fascism and the spread of Stalinism, guarantees certain fundamental human rights. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which adjudicates on ECHR, offered first signatory states, then, in the mid-1970s, individual complainants, a higher appellate body for challenging judicial decisions of the highest national courts. Continue reading “Mosley v United Kingdom [2011]: super-injunctions and Article 8”

In early June the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee published a report called ‘The Work of the UK Border Agency (November 2010 – March 2011)’, which accuses the UK Border Agency (UKBA) of effectively creating an amnesty for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers whose cases have been delayed for many years. Continue reading “Effective amnesty in UK asylum system: an agency ‘not fit for purpose’”

On 1 May 2011, long-debated amendments to law no 53/2003 (the labour code) finally entered into force in Romania. At the same time, a significant number of laws and secondary legislation were repealed and replaced by the new law no 62/2011 when social dialogue was effected mid-May 2011 (the social dialogue law). Continue reading “Moderate revolution in Romanian employment legislation”

Streaming video recently overtook peer-to-peer networks to become the largest single category of internet traffic, according to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index.¹ This is a key reason why global internet traffic has increased eightfold over the past five years.² With expected further dramatic increases in data traffic (Cisco estimates that internet traffic will increase fourfold over the next five years³) due to the growth of internet protocol television and 4G mobile services and the emergence of traffic management technologies such as ‘deep packet inspection’, which has increased the ability of network operators to prioritise certain types of traffic, the debate concerning net neutrality is becoming even more prominent. Continue reading “Throttling net neutrality?”

This article sets out a summary of some of the key, recent court cases relating to institutional financial services, looks at some of the themes emerging and gives a view on the outlook for disputes in the sector.
Continue reading “Financial services disputes: the current legal landscape”

On 31 December 2007, Law No 27 of 2007 (concerning ownership of jointly owned property in the emirate of Dubai) was published in the official gazette, which came into force on 1 April 2008.

Jointly owned property (JOP) is the term used to describe a building or land that has been divided into units and where part of the land is designated as common areas (Article 2 of Law No 27). Continue reading “UAE strata law: enforcing the rights of owners’ associations”

A hypothetical transaction lies at the heart of most valuation exercises, whether a capital valuation or a rental valuation. The parties must address a negotiation on assumed facts, based on ground rules set out in the lease or other contract and in case law.

An issue that presents itself is whether documents and information held by one party but not the other are relevant and ought to be disclosed to that other. The question is then turned round and the party against whom disclosure is sought asks: ‘How can these documents or information be relevant if they were not known to you?’ Battle is joined. Continue reading “Fishing from a jetty? Relevance and disclosure in property disputes”