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16 April 2026

Operational and financial lease: what are the differences in the context of business financing?

The distinction between operational lease and financial lease is important in the context of business financing.

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29 January 2024

Child maintenance: the legal father vs the biological father

In some cases, the legal father may not be the biological father. Under Dutch law, the legal father is responsible for paying child maintenance.

28 January 2024

Violation of a recommencement of employment condition: what does it cost?

Most employers in the Netherlands are aware that the rollout of a restructuring involving compulsory redundancies is bound by the necessary rules.

27 January 2024

Supreme Court on amending a pension supplement scheme

On 21 April 2023, the Supreme Court delivered an important ruling on amending a provision in a pension scheme about the granting of supplements (price indexation).

24 January 2024

Contracting work

A building contract exists when one party, the contractor, undertakes to the other party, the client, to deliver work for payment of a sum of money.

22 January 2024

Prohibition on restrictions and self-employed persons

The question regularly arises whether a supplier can prohibit the personnel it deploys - agency workers and seconded workers - from being employed by the hirer.

17 January 2024

Latest addition to the fundamental right to holidays

It is well-known: ‘Europe’ considers the right to four weeks’ paid holiday to be a fundamental right. For many years, the EU Court of Justice has emphasised this ‘essential principle of social law’ in case law.

6 December 2023

Didam judgment: contracts void or voidable?

In the context of administrative law, the Division has previously ruled that public bodies are required by the principle of equal opportunity or equality to provide interested parties with scope to compete in the event of scarcity.

4 December 2023

Is principal residence mandatory in contractual co-tenancy?

Most residential leases stipulate that keeping the principal residence in the leased property is mandatory.

22 November 2023

Small hearts, big consequences

Since the MeToo movement in 2017, the number of court rulings involving sexually transgressive behaviour has increased exponentially.