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Storing and screening employee emails abroad

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
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  • February 25 2008

This Update sets forth new considerations for email policies in the United States due to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Guard Publishing

European litigation trends

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • European Union, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom
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  • March 30 2007

Litigating in Europe is a complex process

Agency agreement Germany

  • Reed Smith LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • May 31 2008

In Catalyst Recycling Ltd v Nickelhutte Aue Gmbh Lawtel 22.5.08 the appellant, a German company which owned a specialist waste processing plant, appealed against a decision that it was in repudiatory breach of its agency agreement with the respondent English company

New ECJ reference in relation to supplementary protection certificates for medicinal products

  • Bird & Bird
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  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • December 20 2007

The latest reference to the ECJ under Council Regulation (EEC) No 179892 concerning the creation of a supplementary protection certificate for medicinal products, which establishes the scheme by which supplementary protection certificates (SPCs) enable de facto patent term extension of up to 5 years to be secured for pharmaceuticals, concerns the time limit for filing an application for such an SPC

Public procurement European Court provides additional guidance on the application of EU procurement rules to development agreements

  • Squire Sanders
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  • European Union, Germany, United Kingdom
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  • April 9 2010

On 25 March 2010 the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") provided further clarification on the application of EU procurement rules to land development agreements

German courts challenging UK schemes of arrangement?

  • Mayer Brown LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • April 30 2010

In a decision which has not yet been confirmed by the German Federal Court, the Higher Regional Court of Celle (an appellate court) has decided that a German policyholder of UK life insurer Equitable Life is not protected by a scheme of arrangement which had been approved by the London High Court in February 2002

Ryanair raising the drawbridge

  • Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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  • Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom
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  • September 11 2008

Ryanair has recently claimed victory in a Hamburg Regional Court dispute, preventing a third party website run by Vtours GmbH from "screen scraping" its website

High Court approves scheme of arrangement for German companies

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • December 21 2010

On 14 December 2010 the English Court sanctioned four connected schemes of arrangement for German companies in the Tele Columbus group

Insurance and reinsurance news

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • February 18 2010

The recent Equitable Life case, decided by the Higher Regional Court of Celle (the OLG Celle), is the first example of a German court considering the recognition of a UK creditors' scheme of arrangement

German Federal Labour Court: no obligation to increase pensions in spite of economically stable parent company

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Germany, United Kingdom
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  • March 10 2011

According to German law, every three years an employer must adjust its current company pensions to the rise in the cost of living, but only if its financial situation allows it to do this