by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | News
The Shell judgment: following developments in society is unlawful? Noblesse oblige? On 26 May 2021, the The Hague District Court rendered a much talked-about judgment in the case of Milieudefensie et al. v. Shell. In the judgment, the Court has ordered Shell to reduce...
by admin | May 12, 2021 | News
Amsterdam District Court wants to have none of the high-level defences in Trucks Today, 12 May, the Amsterdam District Court rendered an important judgment in the cartel damages actions in respect of the Trucks cartel. Several known European Truck producers colluded...
by admin | May 6, 2021 | News
An exercise in legal archaeology, reaching as far back as 1962, leads to favourable opinion for cartel damages claims In May 2019, we reported about an important judgment of the Amsterdam District Court in the cartel damages action of Stichting Cartel Compensation...
by admin | Apr 15, 2021 | News
Up and down, jumping all around? It is established case law that European competition law is addressed towards undertakings, and not to legal entities. It is also settled case law that within an undertaking, an infringement of a subsidiary can, under certain...
by admin | Jul 15, 2020 | News
Month: July 2020 On 30 June 2020, the final text of the draft EU group-claims directive (the Directive) was published (https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=consil:ST_9223_2020_INIT). The final text was agreed between representatives of the European...
by admin | Mar 25, 2020 | News
News Like our health care system, our legal system has its limits. Due to the recent developments in respect of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the courts in the Netherlands have partially closed and only handle specific, urgent cases. This was originally the...
