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When you fail to appear as a defendant in proceedings, you are convicted in absentia. The claim is then usually awarded because no defense was put forward. You can still enter an objection within a period of time calculated from the moment you became aware of the verdict. How that works, read...

Appeal to old-age clause in renovated home, is it possible? In today's tight housing market, it is more important than ever to refurbish old homes so that they can be sold and lived in again. Consequently, this is happening a lot. But even with those renovated homes, one often encounters hidden defects. Given the aging clause included in...

On February 25, 2025, the Arnhem-Leeuwarden Court of Appeal (ECLI:NL:GHARL:2025:1071) ruled on a dispute resolution provision in the division regulations of a VvE. An apartment owner came into conflict with the VvE over renovations to her home. The VvE went to the subdistrict court. In itself nothing out of the ordinary, were it not for the fact that in the subdivision deed of the apartment complex there is a...

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...

No copyright infringement, yes trademark infringement on scarves from ByLima Despite a previous lawsuit filed by ByLima against counterfeit product providers (see ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2019:10129 and KG ZA 19-132 MW/EB), which ruled that its intellectual property rights had been infringed, this does not seem to have stopped them from continuing. On August 5, 2025...

The Amsterdam District Court has overturned a number of VvE resolutions because the meeting took place in the wrong municipality. This follows from a judgment published yesterday (ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2025:4860). The VvE's subdivision deed states that meetings must be held in the municipality in which the building stands. However, the administrator of the VvE did not comply with that...