A general overview of the French rules of civil and commercial procedure, and how they differ from those in the US.

La Chancellerie souhaite « faire entrer la justice dans le salon des Français ».

The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal offered some crucial guidance on the special income tax exemption applying to impatriate employees in France in a recent decision issued March 16, 2021.

Dans la décision PC-CoA-002/2025, la cour d'appel de la JUB vient de confirmer qu'il était possible pour le Titulaire d'un brevet européen délivré d'obtenir des mesures de conservation...

In recent years, climate change litigation has begun to impact an increasingly diverse range of businesses and their directors and officers. This trend has been highlighted in The Grantham Research Institute's 2025 Report...

Une régie publicitaire n'informant l'annonceur, ni du mode d'acquisition des espaces publicitaires, ni des prix proposés par les autres annonceurs crée-t-elle un déséquilibre significatif...

Par un arrêt du 18 octobre 2023 prochainement cité au rapport annuel (Cass. com., 18 oct. 2023, n° 20-21.579), la Cour de cassation apporte un éclairage majeur à l'article 1226...

Un big bang en matière d'acquisition de congés payés...

In a decision issued on February 25, 2022, the Conseil d'Etat (French Administrative Supreme Court) validated the derogation allowing the use of sugar beet seeds treated with neonicotinoids.

In a ruling issued on November 30, 2022, the First Civil Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) ruled that the principle of compensatory allowance should prevail...

Following decisions on procedural matters (court venue and prior conciliation), the case brought by the SUD PTT union against the company named La Poste (French postal services) is the first to result in a decision...

Recent changes to the French Civil Procedure Code significantly enhance the efficacy of judgments, even when an appeal has been filed.

Face à des contenus illicites, les hébergeurs sont tenus à certaines obligations, notamment celles de retirer promptement tout contenu étant manifestement litigieux.

In Vidatel v. PT Ventures, Mercury and Geni case (Cass. Civ. 1ère, 9 November 2022, No 21-17203), the French Supreme Court upheld the 2021 decision of the Paris Court of Appeal...

If there is no express law of the arbitration agreement, the law with which that agreement has its closest and most real connection is either the law of the underlying contract or the law of the...

A Paris court ruled that a furniture designer's copyright was infringed when a paint company reproduced his creations on product packaging and marketing materials. The case centered on whether a contractual clause purporting to transfer exploitation rights met the strict formal requirements imposed by French intellectual property law for valid copyright assignments.

La loi pénale est d'interprétation stricte. Ce principe visé à l'article 111-4 du Code pénal est un principe irriguant le droit pénal français. Il en découle que l'application des règles...

On February 25, 2020, the International Commercial Chamber of the Paris Court of Appeals ruled for the first time on the independence and impartiality of arbitrators and more generally...

Dans le cadre des orientations et de la programmation des moyens du ministère de la Justice pour la période 2023-2027...

Le 20 janvier 2022, la cour d'appel de Paris a condamné Twitter à détailler les moyens qu'il met en œuvre pour lutter contre la haine en ligne.