18 August 2026
Termination of a commercial lease due to urgent own use
To successfully rely on the termination ground of urgent own use (Article 7:296(1)(b) of the Dutch Civil Code), the landlord of 7:290 BW business premises (including hospitality and retail premises) must make it sufficiently plausible that they intend to take the leased property into urgent, personal, and durable use.
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26 March 2026
The conditions for a bank guarantee to lift a seizure
Provisinal (or prejudgment) seizure of a bank account is a powerful tool for creditors to safeguard their recourse position, before a court has ruled definitively on a claim. For the party whose assets are attached, however, such attachment can be highly disruptive.
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7 August 2024
The legal division of maintenance and repair costs in tenancy law
Whose responsibility are the costs of maintenance and repair of the property: the tenant or the landlord? It is a question that often leads to discussion and is subject to much litigation. This blog focuses on the statutory regulation and the deviating regulation of the ROZ model contracts.
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31 January 2024
Column Raymond de Mooij: Robot lawyer
A ‘robot lawyer’ has been made available on the market in America. This is an app with legal information that would make using a lawyer unnecessary. ‘Fight corporations’, ‘find hidden money’, ‘beat bureaucracy’. This is what the robot can and will do. ‘Sue everybody,’ is the urgent advice.
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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.
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18 October 2023
Column Raymond de Mooij: Hothead
Ingrid Kastanje operates a large real estate portfolio in The Hague, together with her husband. Two born and bred ‘Hagenezen’ with their hearts on their sleeves.
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4 October 2023
Column Raymond de Mooij: Borsato
Could it be typically Dutch? People gloating when successful compatriots are made fun of in the media? After all, we are envious people.
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27 September 2023
Column Raymond de Mooij: Trial by jury
In civil cases, litigation easily takes a year, and two or three years also occurs. Colleagues of mine have proceedings pending that have taken more than a decade, including appeals.
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20 March 2023
Column Raymond de Mooij: Common cold
“There is a dangerous man in the waiting room”, the switchboard operator said in a whisper. “He says he has an appointment with you”. Delano Tak was indeed an impressive sight. Two metres tall, a shaved head and a pockmarked face.
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