Houthoff

Counsel (Litigation and Insurance)

Diederik specialises in dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on liability law, collective redress, consumer rights law, contractual disputes, and Supreme Court litigation. He has considerable experience as a defence counsel and has been involved in several of the largest collective disputes in the Netherlands. As a Supreme Court lawyer, he represents clients in cassation and preliminary ruling proceedings, and helped shaping landmark decisions in liability law, insurance law, procedural law and consumer rights law.

Diederik earned his Ph.D. from Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he wrote a dissertation titled 'Relativity, Causation, and Remoteness of Damage', exploring the limits of contractual and tortious liability. He has authored several publications, primarily on tort law and collective redress, and regularly lectures on these topics. Diederik is editor of the authoritative commentary on the law of damages ("Groene Serie Schadevergoeding") on the topics causation and remoteness.

Diederik is a member of the Dutch Association for Procedural Law, the Dutch Association for Civil Law, the Dutch Association for Liability Law, the Dutch Association for Financial Law and the Dutch Association of Civil Cassation Lawyers.

Dutch, English