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Brussels, 28 September 2012 Asylum and migration: EU must do more to protect unaccompanied children Every year thousands of unaccompanied minors travel to Europe seeking a new life. The majority has fled from wars, conflicts or other difficult living conditions and some have even lost family membe... [Read All]

Mediation and over-indebtedness in Italy (1) In 2005, in Italy, a reform of the insolvency procedures started out, which reached an ubi consistam in August 2010. Among the main innovations there was the introduction of spaces of negotiation between debtor and creditors, extensive in the debt restru... [Read All]

  As it was before, the “composition with creditors” (art. 160, Italian Bankruptcy Act) helped too little the insolvent entrpreneurs. Not to mention the “restructuring agreements” (art. 182bis, I.B.A.). The tools provided by the legislator between 2005 and 2006, were am... [Read All]

CCBE POSITION PAPER ON THE PROPOSAL FOR A REGULATION ON A COMMON EUROPEAN SALES LAW The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) is the representative organisation of around 1 million European lawyers through its member bars and law societies from 31 full member countries, and 11 further... [Read All]

    PRESS RELEASE EDPS/12/12 Brussels, Wednesday 05 September 2012 EURODAC: erosion of fundamental rights creeps along Today, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) adopted his opinion on the amended Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the C... [Read All]

  European Commission Press release Brussels, 31 July 2012   Antitrust: Commission sends supplementary statement of objections to Visa The European Commission has informed Visa of additional concerns about possible violations of EU antitrust rules concerning multil... [Read All]

Altalex.com, the most visited legal information website in Italy, is launching today the website Altalex.eu, the first Online Community of European Lawyers. Altalex.eu is an online publishing initiative which has as its objective the diffusion of European private law in the european countries.... [Read All]

The government has announced that it will be introducing a small-claims track for Intellectual Property cases in the Patents County Court. The Hargreaves Review recommended that this measure be taken, reporting that some 17% of small and medium sized enterprises had given up attempting to enforce ... [Read All]

Plenty More LLP began an online dating service in 2006. In 2007 they applied for a figurative trade mark incorporating the words ‘Plenty More Fish’. Canadian company Plentyoffish Media Inc opposed registration of the trade mark above, stating that they had acquired goodwill in the name.... [Read All]

Q: What connects princess of pop Kylie Minogue with the German brothers found guilty of murdering a well-known actor in the 90s? A: The latest ECJ ruling on jurisdiction and choice of law in relation to the publication of harmful information on the internet. The joint cases both related to harmful... [Read All]