In its judgment handed down on 13 October 2011, the Court of Justice overturned the General Court’s ruling that appeals by Germany and Deutsche Post AG ("Deutsche Post") relating to a Commission injunction requesting information in state aid investigations were inadmissible.

They therefore requested that the investigations in relation to Alcogroup should be suspended. In its reply of 8 May 2015, the Commission rejected this request.

On 5 March 2013, the Brussels Court of Appeal delivered a landmark judgment judgment finding that in-house lawyers' communications benefit from the so-called "legal professional privilege".

The case ended up with the Court which first examined if Belgian courts had jurisdiction over Skype.

CEPANI, the Belgian Centre for Arbitration and Mediation, has issued new Arbitration Rules entering into force on 1 June 2026, building on the modernisation achieved in the 2020...

Following a recently published decision of the Court of Cassation regarding the duration of confidentiality clauses, the Commercial & Litigation team provides you with some tips on confidentiality clauses below.

The European Commission's broad information-gathering powers came under scrutiny when Vivendi and Lagardère challenged requests for documents from personal devices during a gun-jumping investigation. The General Court's dismissal of these challenges confirms that competition authorities can access professional communications on personal devices, even when fundamental rights concerns are raised, provided appropriate safeguards are in place.