Litigation in the Netherlands

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Civil Procedure, Arbitration and Administrative Litigation

Marieke van Hooijdonk Peter V. Eijsvoogel(Autor*in)

Kluwer Law International (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 24. Februar 2009

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Intro
Title
Copyright
Foreword to the First Edition
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Civil Procedure
1. Introduction
2. Differences Between Netherlands and Common Law
2.1 No Jury and the Role of the Judge
2.2 Evidence
2.2.1 Order
2.2.2 Admissibility
2.2.3 Burden of Proof
2.2.4 Witness Hearings
2.2.5 No Document Discovery or Depositions
2.3 Available Remedies
2.4 Duration of Proceedings
2.5 Costs of Litigation
3. Court System, Parties, Sources of Law and Fair Trial
3.1 The Court System
3.1.1 District Courts
3.1.1.1 General
3.1.1.2 Cantonal Division of the District Court
3.1.2 Courts of Appeal
3.1.3 Supreme Court
3.2 Parties, Attorneys and Judges
3.2.1 Parties
3.2.2 Attorneys
3.2.3 Judges
3.3 Sources of Law
3.4 Fair Trial, Due Process and Abuse of a Procedural Right
4. Jurisdiction
4.1 Introduction
4.2 International Jurisdiction
4.2.1 Sources of International Jurisdiction
4.2.2 The EC Regulation
4.2.3 National Rules
4.2.3.1 General
4.2.3.2 Attachment Creating Jurisdiction
4.2.3.3 Jurisdiction and Petition Proceedings
4.2.3.4 No Forum Non Conveniens
4.2.4 Lis Pendens
4.3 Absolute Jurisdiction
4.4 Venue (Relative Jurisdiction)
5. Evidence
5.1 Rules of Evidence
5.1.1 General
5.1.2 Range of Application
5.1.3 Burden of Proof
5.1.4 Admissibility of Evidence
5.2 Types of Evidence
5.2.1 Documents
5.2.1.1 Value as Evidence
5.2.1.2 Submission
5.2.2 Witnesses
5.2.2.1 General
5.2.2.2 Value as Evidence
5.2.2.3 Written Witness Declarations
5.2.2.4 Witness Hearings
5.2.2.5 Preliminary Witness Hearing
5.2.3 Experts
5.2.3.1 General
5.2.3.2 Preliminary Expert's Report
5.3 Attorney-Client Privilege
5.4 Pre-trial Discovery or Disclosure
5.5 International Aspects
5.5.1 Formal and Substantive Rules of Evidence
5.5.2 Taking of Evidence Abroad
5.5.3 Foreign Law
6. The Proceedings
6.1 Course of the Proceedings at First Instance
6.1.1 General
6.1.2 Service of Process
6.1.2.1 Commencement of the Proceedings
6.1.2.2 Service of Process on Dutch Defendants
6.1.2.3 Service of Process on Foreign Defendants
6.1.2.4 Minimum Period between Service and Appearance in Court
6.1.3 Default
6.1.4 Written Statements
6.1.4.1 General
6.1.4.2 Writ of Summons
6.1.4.3 Statement of Defence
6.1.4.4 Statement of Reply and Statement of Rejoinder
6.1.4.5 Amendment of Claim
6.1.5 Order to Appear in Court
6.1.6 Closing Arguments
6.1.6.1 Request for Closing Arguments
6.1.6.2 Nature of Closing Arguments
6.1.7 Termination of Proceedings
6.1.7.1 Removal from Docket List
6.1.7.2 Withdrawal
6.1.7.3 Prejudice of the Right To Take Action
6.1.8 Judgments
6.1.8.1 General
6.1.8.2 Requirements of a Judgment
6.1.8.3 Interim Judgments
6.1.8.4 Final Judgments
6.1.8.5 Binding Force
6.1.8.6 Provisionally Enforceable Notwithstanding an Appeal
6.1.8.7 Rectification, Correction and Supplementation of Judgment
6.1.9 Litigation Costs and Attorneys' Fees
6.2 Motion Practice
6.2.1 Introduction
6.2.2 Procedural Aspects of Motion Practice
6.2.3 Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Jurisdiction
6.2.4 Motion to Consolidate with Another Pending Case
6.2.5 Motion to Join or Intervene as a Party
6.2.6 Motion for Indemnification Proceedings
6.2.7 Motion for Security for Litigation Costs
6.2.8 Motion for Provisional Relief
6.2.9 Other Motions
6.3 Main Available Remedies
6.3.1 Specific Performance
6.3.2 Damages
6.3.3 Rescission
6.3.4 Annulment
6.3.5 Declaration of Law
6.3.6 Injunction
6.4 Appeal
6.4.1 Appeal to the Courts of Appeal
6.4.1.1 Appealable Judgments
6.4.1.2 Period for Lodging an Appeal
6.4.1.3 Standard and Scope of Review
6.4.1.4 The Proceedings
6.4.2 Appeal to the Supreme Court
6.4.2.1 Appealable Judgments
6.4.2.2 Period for Lodging an Appeal
6.4.2.3 Standard and Scope of Review
6.4.2.4 The Proceedings
6.4.3 Revocation
6.5 Petition Proceedings
6.5.1 Nature of Petition Proceedings
6.5.2 Jurisdiction
6.5.3 The Proceedings
6.5.4 Orders
7. Corporate Litigation in the Enterprise Court
7.1 Role of the Enterprise Court
7.2 Enquiry Proceedings
7.2.1 Introduction
7.2.2 Aim of the Enquiry Proceedings
7.2.3 Parties Entitled to Ask for an Enquiry
7.2.3.1 Shareholders, Holders of Depositary Receipts for Shares, Pledgees and Holders of a Right of Usufruct
7.2.3.2 The Company
7.2.3.3 Trade Unions and Works Councils
7.2.3.4 Other Parties
7.2.3.5 Attorney-general
7.2.4 Prior Written Notice
7.2.5 Subject of the Enquiry
7.2.6 First Stage: Request for Enquiry
7.2.6.1 Interested Parties
7.2.6.2 Sufficient Grounds to Doubt as to Whether the Company Is Pursuing a Proper Policy or a Proper Course of Affairs
7.2.7 Second Stage: Enquiry
7.2.7.1 Duties and Powers of the Investigators
7.2.7.2 Witnesses
7.2.7.3 Investigator's Report
7.2.7.4 Costs of the Investigation
7.2.8 Third Stage: Decision
7.2.8.1 Determination of Mismanagement
7.2.8.2 Types of Measures
7.2.9 Provisional Measures
7.2.9.1 General
7.2.9.2 The Proceedings
7.2.9.3 Types of Provisional Measures
7.2.10 Appeal to the Supreme Court
7.2.11 Effect of a Finding of Mismanagement
7.3 Forced Exit Proceedings
7.3.1 General
7.3.2 The Proceedings
7.3.2.1 Jurisdiction
7.3.2.2 First Stage: Conditions for Forced Exit
7.3.2.3 Second Stage: Price Determination and Judgment
7.3.2.4 Consequences of a Judgment being Overturned on Appeal
7.3.3 Alternative Proceedings
7.4 Squeeze-Out Proceedings
7.4.1 General
7.4.2 The Proceedings
7.4.3 Squeeze-Out Price
7.4.4 Squeeze-Out Proceedings after a Public Bid
7.4.5 Judgment
7.5 Proceedings to Challenge Annual Accounts
7.5.1 General
7.5.2 The Proceedings
7.5.3 Decision
7.5.4 The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets
7.6 Other Proceedings in the Enterprise Court
8. Derivative Actions, Class Actions and Class Settlements
8.1 Derivative Actions
8.2 Class Actions
8.3 Class Settlements
8.3.1 General
8.3.2 The Proceedings
8.3.2.1 First Stage: Settlement Agreement
8.3.2.2 Second Stage: Petition
8.3.2.3 Third Stage: Opting Out
8.3.2.4 Fourth Stage: Distribution of Funds
8.3.3 International settlements
8.3.4 Evaluation of the WCAM
9. Provisional Remedies
9.1 Preliminary Relief Proceedings
9.1.1 General
9.1.2 Requirements
9.1.3 Available Remedies
9.1.4 The Proceedings
9.1.5 Judgment
9.1.6 Appeal
9.2 Pre-judgment Attachment
9.2.1 General
9.2.2 Types of Attachment
9.2.3 The Proceedings
9.2.3.1 Petition to the Court
9.2.3.2 Instituting Main Proceedings
9.2.4 Lifting the Attachment
9.2.5 Liability for Wrongful Attachment
9.2.6 Conversion into Executory Attachment
10. Enforcement and Recognition of Judgments
10.1 General
10.2 Enforcement of Dutch Judgments
10.2.1 Enforcement of Monetary Judgments
10.2.2 Enforcement of Other Judgments
10.2.3 Disputes Regarding Enforcement
10.3 Enforcement of Foreign Judgments
10.3.1 General
10.3.2 Enforcement and Recognition Treaty Applicable
10.3.3 Specific European Regulations
10.3.4 Absence of an Enforcement and Recognition Treaty
Chapter 2 Arbitration
1. Introduction
1.1 General
1.2 Applicable Rules
2. Arbitration Agreement
2.1 Requirements of an Arbitration Agreement
2.2 Place of Arbitration
2.3 Jurisdiction of the Civil Courts
3. Arbitration Proceedings under the Arbitration Act
3.1 The Arbitral Tribunal
3.1.1 Appointment of Arbitrators
3.1.2 Jurisdiction
3.1.3 Challenge of Arbitrators
3.2 The Arbitration Proceedings
3.2.1 Commencement of the Proceedings
3.2.2 The Proceedings
3.2.3 Evidence
3.2.3.1 Documents
3.2.3.2 Witnesses and Experts
3.2.3.3 Joinder of Third Parties
3.2.3.4 Consolidation
3.3 Confidentiality
3.4 Preliminary Relief
3.5 Costs
4. Arbitral Award
4.1 General
4.2 Laws and Rules Applicable to the Merits of the Dispute
4.3 Requirements of an Arbitral Award
4.4 Binding Force and Appeal
4.5 Rectification, Correction and Supplementation of Award
4.6 Enforcement
4.7 Setting Aside and Revocation
4.7.1 General
4.7.2 Setting Aside
4.7.3 Revocation
4.7.4 Consequences
5. Arbitration Outside the Netherlands
5.1 Jurisdiction of the Dutch Civil Courts
5.2 Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards
6. Arbitration under the NAI Arbitration Rules
6.1 General
6.2 Appointment of Arbitrators
6.3 The Proceedings
6.4 Confidentiality
6.5 Provisional Measures
6.6 Rules Applicable to the Merits of the Dispute
6.7 Costs
6.8 Publication of Award
7. Expert Determination
8. Mediation
Chapter 3 Administrative Litigation
1. General Introduction
1.1 Administrative Law and Administrative Litigation
1.2 Importance of Administrative Law
1.3 Sources of Administrative Law
1.4 General Administrative Law Act
2. The System of Dutch Administrative Litigation
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Admissibility (1): Order
2.3 Admissibility (2): Administrative Authority
2.4 Admissibility (3): Interested Party
2.5 No Review of Legislation or of Internally Binding Policy Rules
2.6 Civil Law Remedies Available
3. Administrative Review and Other Pre-proceedings
3.1 Three Types of Pre-proceedings at Government Level
3.2 Objection Proceedings
3.2.1 General
3.2.2 Jurisdiction
3.2.3. Notice of Objection
3.2.4 Time Allowed for Filing a Notice of Objection
3.2.5 The Proceedings
3.2.6 Reviewed Order
3.2.7 Costs
3.3 Public Preparatory Procedure
4. Judicial Review by the Administrative Courts: Appeal and Higher Appeal
4.1 Jurisdiction
4.1.1 General
4.1.2 Subject Matter Jurisdiction and Territorial Jurisdiction at First Instance
4.1.3 Direct Appeal
4.1.4 Appellate Jurisdiction
4.2 Parties
4.3 Representation
4.4 Filing the Appeal
4.5 Scope of the Appeal
4.6 The Proceedings
4.6.1 General
4.6.2 Documents and Written Submissions
4.6.3 Confidential Documents
4.6.4 Hearing
4.6.5 Evidence
4.7 Judgment
4.8 Court Fees, Costs and Damages
4.8.1 Court Fees
4.8.2 Costs
4.8.3 Damages
4.9 Special Appeal Proceedings
4.9.1 Simplified Proceedings
4.9.2 Accelerated Proceedings
5. Preliminary Relief
5.1 General
5.2 Requirements
5.2.1 Jurisdiction
5.2.2 Admissibility
5.2.3 Substantive Criterion
5.3 Available Remedies
5.4 The Proceedings
5.5 Judgment
5.5.1 General
5.5.2 Simultaneous Judgment on the Merits
5.6 No Appeal, Only Alteration or Termination
6. Judicial Review by the Civil Courts
6.1 Jurisdiction
6.2 Admissibility
6.3 Doctrine of Formal Legal Effect
6.4 Procedure
7. Complaints Proceedings
7.1 General
7.2 Internal Complaints Proceedings
7.3 External Complaints Proceedings
7.3.1 General
7.3.2 Requirements
7.3.3 Procedure
8. Supervision and Enforcement
8.1 Introduction
8.2 General Provisions on Administrative Enforcement
8.3 Supervisory Powers
8.4 Instruction under Threat of Administrative Coercion
8.5 Instruction under Threat of Penalty Payments
8.6 Administrative Fine
8.7 Withdrawal of a Favourable Order
8.8 Discretion in Relation to Enforcement
Glossary English to Dutch
Glossary Dutch to English
List of Abbreviations
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