Contract Law

Agreement with MKB Clickservice successfully annulled for error Early this year, the Amsterdam District Court's subdistrict court (ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2025:687) annulled an agreement between MKB Clickservice and an entrepreneur for error. MKB Clickservice had made several attractive promises to the entrepreneur. As a result, the entrepreneur thought that certain services would be provided free of charge (based on a...

Deal or no deal? Agreeing on the essentials of the purchase agreement That a deal is not always a deal, you could read earlier in our blog about the drunk buyer of a golf course. That deal was not valid due to drunkenness. From a Rotterdam District Court ruling published today (ECLI:NL:RBROT:2025:7289), even the...

Reliance on sustainable own use by landlord business premises due to renovation: does it hold? The lease of 290 business premises can be terminated by the lessor due to sustainable own use. Based on Section 7:296 (1) (b) of the Dutch Civil Code, this includes renovation of the business premises. For the termination due to permanent own use, the...

Court of Appeal finds expiry period in AGM2013 unfair Late in 2024, the Amsterdam Court of Appeal (ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2024:3490) made an interesting ruling the use of expiry periods in general terms and conditions in building contracts. In this case, a consumer and a contractor had concluded a building contract for the construction of a house. On this, the so-called General Conditions for Contracting Work 2013...

Old-age clause in home purchase When buying or selling a home, it is important to be mindful of the parties' risk allocation. A common (but not standard) provision in purchase agreements of older homes is the so-called age clause. But what exactly does this clause entail? And how far does the protection it affords to...

Porsche buyer violates duty of truth, but judge punishes it About the application of Section 21 Rv it is sometimes said, “if you fool the judge, you will go down on your face.” That this really is the case was experienced recently by the buyer of a Porsche Macan. The Porsche had various defects and turned out to be an old damaged car,...