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The Rotterdam District Court (ECLI:NL:RBROT:2025:10807) ruled last week in a dispute between two harbor pilots. One pilot accused the other of plagiarism. The plaintiff is providing a mandatory pilot course for Omani pilots in 2022 on behalf of IMCO (International Maritime College Oman). For this purpose, plaintiff has compiled a booklet whose foreword plaintiff wrote himself....

That you can become the owner of a piece of land by prescription is known to many. Mostly disputes about property boundaries concern land that several parties want to own. The fact that two parties do not want to be owners and instead designate the other as entitled party is somewhat less common. If there is highly contaminated land, or, for example,...

Kees van der Spek's television program is (also) very interesting for lawyers to watch. In his weekly show, Van der Spek pays attention to fraudsters who often leave for foreign countries with large debts. They leave their creditors penniless. If it is up to Kees van der Spek, they won't come away with that....

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...