On Thursday 20th and Friday 21st April The Bar of Ireland hosted over 100 delegates for the New York State Bar Association International Section Spring Meeting 2017. Outer Temple Chambers barristers took part of several panels on different subjects such as: The Impact of Brexit on Dublin and other European Cities Anti-Corruption Law and Enforcement International Human Rights:…
A fact that has already been established for several years is unrelenting: whereas renewable energies have never been as popular among the French1 and although the government has declared ambitious targets for 2030, the large majority of projects concerning electricity or biogas production systems using renewable energy sources (“RE projects”) are challenged in court, thus…
The French government recently confirmed that it intended to rewrite the French Labor Code in its entirety, since the current legislation has received such criticism from businesses for its lack of flexibility and its inadequacy for the demands they face. We have set out below the principal provisions of the “El Khomri” draft law submitted…
Watch out! By ordinance of 10 February 2016, the French Ministry of Justice issued the long expected deep reform of the French law of contract and obligations. The amendment enters into force on 1 October 2016, subject to its endorsement by the French parliament. It shall only apply on agreements entered into from that date…
In order to comply with European Directive 2005/29 of 11 May 2005 concerning unfair business-to-consumer commercial practices1 as interpreted by the Court of Justice of the European Union, the French rules regarding the announcement of price reductions have been modified2 several times, most recently by a Decree dated 11 March 20153, that entered into force…
The law of July 31, 2014, referred to as the “Hamon Law” had established the obligation, for companies with fewer than 250 employees*, to inform each employee at least two months prior to a transfer or sale, in order to enable the employees to make a takeover offer. Its initial objective was to avoid the…
The French government has endorsed the reflection of the ILO according to which a “productive social dialogue” is likely to “favor labor-related peace and stability and stimulate the economy”. In an in-depth impact assessment, the government describes a deficient social dialogue that: – is inexistent in companies with fewer than 11 employees, for which the…
To be lawful, the regulatory process with which an entrepreneur (client or contractor) must comply when subcontracting the performance of the entirety or part of a service assumes, specific know-how on the part of the subcontractor, flat-rate remuneration of the subcontractor (this, as opposed to a price calculated based on the number of hours necessary…
The labour chamber of the “Cour de Cassation” (French supreme court) has gained notoriety in recent years in several highly-publicized cases1 by a series of rulings against foreign parent companies of a group of companies, ordering the payment of redundancy compensation and damages to employees of their French subsidiary following the closing of a site or…
A recent decision of the Oberlandesgericht Köln[1] in Germany and two recent decisions of the Paris Court of Appeal[2] and the Court of Cassation[3] in France have reanimated the debate about the impact of party impecuniosity on arbitration agreements. This matter is dealt with quite conversely in France and in Germany: whereas the French Courts…