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Obligation to minimize damages in case a loan was unjustly declared due and payable?

14.12.2016

In the case decided, a bank unjustly declared the loan earlier due and payable, whereupon the borrower demanded the costs of the debt restructuring from the bank as compensation for damages. 

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Right to a compulsory portion - effectiveness of an arbitration clause

14.12.2016

The legal right to a compulsory portion cannot be made subject of arbitrational proceedings by manifesting an arbitration clause in the last will. 

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Prospectus information and final conditions

14.12.2016

Issuers of bonds must publish important information in the offering programme in a basic prospectus.

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New procedural rules at ICC

14.12.2016

On 01.03.2017 new procedural rules for ICC arbitration came into force. In the future, the reasons for a decision regarding the challenge of an arbitrator will have to be announced. 

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Liability in case of phishing-attacks

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Lower duty of a bank to warn and inform a pledger

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D&O-Insurance: Serial damage clause

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no administrative criminal proceeding once the investigative procedure according to the stpo (austrian code of criminal procedure) was discontinued

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Part time maternity leave –start of the legal right and of the protection against termination

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Redemption of flight vouchers

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