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On 13 December 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union delivered three judgments on separate appeals brought against judgments of the General Court by Gascogne Sack Deutschland ("Gascogne"), Kendrion and Plasticos Españoles ...

The Belgian Constitutional Court dismissed the actions challenging the legality of the appeal available to companies against the use of documents and data seized during dawn raids.

On 4 May 2017, the federal Parliament adopted a new law which introduces extensive changes to the procedure of judicial liquidation of companies.

On 10 January 2017, the General Court ("GC") issued a judgment in which it ordered the European Union to pay Gascogne and Gascogne Sack Deutschland ("Gascogne") a total of about € 57,000 in damages . . .

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

In a judgment of 6 February 2023, the Supreme Court ruled that when assessing a serious cause, the court may not as such disregard the harm suffered by the employer when determining the severity of the shortcoming.

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...

The proceedings sought to recover specific costs incurred by the German authorities for the treatment of Ms Schlömp's mother.

A patent law firm seeks access to the register in proceedings involving Seventy Bio, Inc. against Johnson & Johnson and Legend Biotech entities, with the United States government intervening. The case concerns European Patent EP 3 689 383 and involves multiple Janssen pharmaceutical subsidiaries across Europe and Legend Biotech entities in the USA, Ireland, and Belgium.

The Local Division Brussels of the Unified Patent Court issued a procedural order addressing the admissibility of further written pleadings in a patent infringement dispute between Establishment Labs S.A. and GC Aesthetics entities concerning European Patent EP 3 107 487. The order examines procedural rules governing additional submissions in both the main infringement action and the related counterclaim for revocation, with considerations of accessory liability under multiple national jurisdictions.

In the context of strike actions opposing the franchising of certain stores by a supermarket chain, the company obtained an injunction against picketing through an ex parte...

On 4 December 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union answered a preliminary question from the Landgericht Darmstadt in the case H. vs. H.K. (Case C-295/13).

The Local Division Brussels of the Unified Patent Court examined an application to change the language of proceedings in a patent dispute between Dutch companies. The decision explores how factors such as party size, domicile, and technological context influence language selection, even when the patent's original language is commonly used in the relevant technical field.

Following the Act of 19 December 2023 (published on 27 December 2023), the legislator has introduced a reconciliation procedure in the commercial and labour courts as well as in the courts of appeal.

The Court for the Defence of Competition has issued two decisions rejecting applications submitted by two card payment system associations (Sistema 4B and Servired) to obtain individual exemptions for their respective agreements on intra-system interchange fees (ie, fees applied to domestic consumer card transactions in retail outlets when the acquirer's and the merchant's banks are members of the same card payment system association).

On 8 March 2023, the General Court granted Violetta Prigozhina's request to annul the restrictive measures imposed via Council Regulation (EU) 2022/260...

On 1 March 2023, the EU's General Court delivered its judgment in Case T‑540/20, Jushi Egypt for Fiberglass Industry v Commission, ruling that the EU's anti-subsidy Regulation...

Het Hof van Cassatie heeft in haar arrest van 18 februari 2022 een interessante verduidelijking gegeven van de reikwijdte van de verplichtingen die rusten op de architect wanneer hij door de bouwheer...