Contract Law

Canton judge does not book upgrade: economy remains economy Father, mother and two children are about to fly back to Amsterdam after two weeks of vacation on tropical St. Maarten, with a stopover in Paris. Because the family values extra legroom, larger entertainment screens and more luxurious snacks, they opted for Premium Economy...

Lawsuit over crashed Ferrari claps: no fraud or mistake A former Quote-500 member buys a 2005 Ferrari 575M Super America F1 from a high-end sports car dealer in Hengelo. The purchase price at the time was €240,000. Two years later, the man crashed his car. A sister company of the seller handles the repairs. The Ferrari is in bad shape...

Court puts angry soccer father out of action Recently, the District Court of Midden-Nederland ruled (ECLI:NL:RBMNE:2024:6053) in a remarkable case, resulting in a hat trick for an amateur soccer club. The club announced its new team roster in June 2024. Not everyone was happy about it. In fact, an eight-year-old boy was placed in a lower team than his father had hoped....

Buyer cheated when buying vacation home on rental plot Investing in vacation homes is increasingly popular. Europarcs is one of the best-known providers of such vacation homes. Yet the company recently faced a legal nightmare. In June of this year, an Amsterdam judge ruled that Europarcs had misled a woman when purchasing a...

Does mediation clause prevent initiation of litigation? The Supreme Court ruled yesterday on the question of whether a mediation clause in an agreement obliges parties to actually try mediation first, before initiating litigation. According to the Supreme Court, mediation may indeed be mandatory. This may result in the judge before whom a...

When you enter into a purchase agreement for real estate, it almost always includes a penalty clause. Whether or not you can successfully invoke it, or to what extent such an appeal is possible, depends on the wording of the penalty clause. This is again evident from a fairly...