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In its decision number 29176/20, the Court of Cassation held that the distributor agreement is characterized by the provision of services and therefore gives rise to jurisdiction at the place of the distributor pursuant...

In an interesting decision, the OLG Hamm (judgement of 14.5.2020, 18 U 93/19) had denied the existence of an authorised dealer agreement between the parties, as the typical features of the type...

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If the German doctor makes a wrong diagnosis and the patient subsequently dies in Italy, not only is the German court competent to hear the heirs' claim for damages; since the doctor provided the characteristic service in the medical contract, German law is...

The introduction of the Italian Corporate Criminal Code with Legislative Decree 231/01 celebrated its 20th anniversary on 8 June 2021 when this client letter went to press. It is also the oldest compliance law internationally....

The question of the readability of judicial decisions has repeatedly been the subject of our newsletter....

Who has not driven through Italian city centres and been filmed or photographed by the local administration?...

With the ambitious goal of cutting the average biblical length of trials in Italy by 40%, a new...

At https://whistleblowing.giustizia.it, all civil servants of ministries, employees of subcontracting...

It is not easy to become a German citizen. The naturalisation test contains questions that more than 90% of Germans would not be able to answer ("Where did Hoffmann...

The Italian Federal Chamber of Notaries has updated and revised...

In June 2020 it came out that the by Wirecard AG alleged trust accounts...

Italy has recently approved the s.c “National Recovery and Resilience Plan” (#Piano nazionale...

On 16 November 2020, the SpaceXCrew-1 mission was launched to the ISS: Soichi Noguchi is also on board. Mr Noguchi,...

As our readers have already learned from the news, the European Court of Justice (C 311/18) ruled on 24.7.2020 that...