Monthly News
The Supreme Court on the validity of the exclusive jurisdiction clause contained in a internet link
- Tuesday 28 November 2017
- Civil and Commercial Litigation, Contratti, Diritto Civile, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Information Tecnnology
- Europa, Italia
In modern business practice, the online conclusion of contracts is a more and more common phenomenon to observe. In this particular field, sometimes parties exchange their general terms and conditions through email. Other times, the conditions are integrally reproduced in the webpage where a ...
Cultural start-up
- Monday 23 October 2017
- Novità legislative, Start up
- Italia, Startup
The issue of protecting and enhancing the artistic and cultural heritage has always been subject of lively debate in Italy. In recent years, even with the economic crisis, public funding for conservation, management and enhancement of artistic and cultural heritage has drastically declined. Thus...
Decree on the implementation of MIfid ii and Mifir Directives approved
- Friday 29 September 2017
- Novità legislative
- Europa
On august 26th 2017, the Legislative Decree no.129 of august 3rd 2017, implementing ‘’Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of may 15th 2014 on markets in financial instruments amending the Directives 2002/92/EC and 2011/61/EU, and as amended by the European ...
The right to be forgotten and its balancing with the right to information.
- Wednesday 30 August 2017
- Diritto Penale, Information Tecnnology, Novità legislative, Privacy
- Europa, Italia
While waiting for the effective entry into force of the new European Personal Data Protection Regulation, which for the first time encodes the right to be forgotten in accordance with the principles of the case-law and the elaborated guidelines of WP Art. 29, is interesting to observe how such a ...
Cassazione Civile, judgement n.16601: on punitive damages in Italy
- Monday 31 July 2017
- Contenzioso arbitrale e giudiziario, Diritto Civile, Risarcimento del danno
- Italia, USA
With the judgment of July 5th 2017, no. 16601, the Italian Supreme Court in plenary session (Sezioni Unite), declared enforceable, in the Italian legal order, three judgements pronounced in the United States of America that recognized the punitive damages to a motorcyclist who had suffered ...