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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,...

Filing for bankruptcy: debt collection lawyer explains how it works When debtors fail to pay, creditors may consider several options to obtain their money. It usually starts with a demand letter or summons. In it, the debtor is given a deadline to still pay. If the debtor then fails to pay, the debtor is in default. That default ...

Inspection VvE records sometimes also means issuing In various court decisions it has been ruled that the right to inspect VvE records does not necessarily mean a right to issue copies. However, this does not automatically mean that the right to issue copies does not exist anyway. The court decisions in which this has been...

Statutory commercial interest: when may you apply it? Statutory commercial interest or ordinary legal interest can be charged in the event of late payment. But when may you do so? What is the difference between ‘ordinary’ statutory interest and statutory commercial interest? And how do you set the rate? In this blog,...

VvE liable for basement leakage? (Part 2 of the blog series ‘Wet Feet’) The consequences of these high groundwater levels are significant. By now we are all familiar with the floods, especially in the south of the Netherlands. Infrastructure also suffers from groundwater: in January 2023, the Vollenhoventunnel on the A28, near...

Judge finds COA the same as a hotel, justified or unjustified? In the middle of last year, the District Court of The Hague (ECLI:NL:RBDHA:2024:12605) ruled that the reception of refugees can be equated with operating a hotel. The tenant who first operated a hotel in the building, but then gave it in use to COA (the Central...