By a judgment dated August 7, 2018, the First Instance Court of Paris ruled on the illegal nature – under French Consumer law and the French Data Protection Act of January 6, 1978 – of several clauses included in the various versions of Twitter’s Terms of Use, Confidentiality Policy and Rules. Twitter was ordered to […]
Laid down by the Plenary Assembly of the Cour de Cassation in February 2009[1], the principle of estoppel ensures a consistency in litigants’ discussions before a court of law as it prohibits a party to contradicts itself at the expense of others. Since the beginning of the year 2018, the Cour de Cassation has delivered […]
In a decision dated April 5, 2018, the Commercial Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme court) confirmed that failure by a party to achieve the sales targets set forth in a contract does not alone suffice to justify the termination of an established business relationship without prior notice. The trial judges must indeed […]
250,000 euros. This is the amount of the fine imposed by the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority or “CNIL”) on Optical Center, a French company specialized in optics, for having failed to properly secure its website www.optical-center.fr. This is the first time that the CNIL imposes such a heavy […]
To prevent the abusive and imminent enforcement of a first demand guarantee, Soulier AARPI, represented by Mrs. Catherine Nommick, Ms. Flore Foyatier and Ms. Isabelle Cottin, obtained in less than a week an injunction from the President of the Commercial Court of Paris who ordered the bank to suspend the payment of the funds under […]
Since January 1, 2017, employers have the obligation to report to the competent authorities the identity of employees who commit certain types of road traffic offenses whilst driving a company car, failing which penalties will be applied. How is this new rule enforced in practice and what are the actual implications of this new obligation? […]
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