The class action had undergone an extremely sinuous and complicated historical evolution. With origins that go back to XIIth century Medieval English Law, it has been subjected countless times to reforms and reconfigurations in order to adapt it to the needs of a certain era. Initially build as an instrument for the strong and few in their fight with the many and weak, the class action had transformed into a useful and efficient instrument for...

Our research aims to go forward with the legal analysis of the issue regarding the civil liability for professional malpractice, more precisely, identifying special coordinates on which this liability lies. If in the first part we have identified the main obligations of the professional, the second part is intended for special obligations. These kind of obligations are found about all categories of professionals and works as a genuine protect...

The preliminary ruling references made by Romanian courts or the refusal to make a reference are elements of the judicial relationship between the national courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union, according to art. 267 TFEU. The article analyses the reference for a preliminary ruling made by the Court of Appeal from Cluj (C-201/14, Bara and Others). The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of applying and interpr...

This study, representing the second part of a broader project aiming to analyze the content of the rights of the artists and their status, render an overview of the patrimonial rights of the Romanian artists: use right and the resale right. The controversial resale right representing a neuralgic point of imbalance between the interests of the artist and those of the owner of the work of art, either plastic or photographic.

In our opinion, conviction for committing a crime in associated form, in according of art. 8 par. (2) of the Law no. 241/2005 to prevent and combat tax evasion, requires proving a certain degree of association: a structure, a network, a hierarchy, a program, planning the execution of actions that are sanctioned by criminal / penal law.

This paper examines the EB-5 immigration visa, created by the United States through the Immigration Act of 1990. The Immigration Investor Programm allows immigrants to earn their Green Card / American Citizenship by investing in American businesses. Investments range from commercial real estate to solar energy plants and could only be received by an economic unit defined as a Regional Center. It also focuses on the legal aspects of regional ce...

By inserting the arbitration clause in their contract, the Parties agree that they shall both bear the costs of the arbitration proceedings equally.In its decision regarding the costs, the arbitral tribunal will consider any and all of the circumstances it deems relevant, including if and to what extent the each party carried its part of the arbitration in a time and cost-efficient manner.Regarding the subsequent allocation of cost...

The issues regarding the civil liability of the professional incites increasingly the interest of the theoreticians, and even more of the legal practitioners being often cited in the settlement of the cases subject to judgment. Our analysis aims to outline the main references which rank this legal institution, trying to sustain with solid arguments the need for the acknowledgement of freestanding liability, separated in relation to other assu...

The new Civil Code innovates the sanction of contract rescission as far as substantial law is concerned, but an adaptation of the procedural law occurs as well, Government Emergency Ordinance nr. 80/2013 concerning the judicial stamp duty being enacted especially in order to adapt the payment of tax to the new judicial institutions created by this legal norms codex. By excluding the institution of finding the unilateral extrajudicial rescissio...

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice continues to elliminate from consumer credit contracts those fees which it regards as unfair, ruling out that on the grounds of the lack of counterperformance there is an imbalance between the parties rights and liabilities. Two recent decisions, dating November 2016 and May 2017 (XI ZR 552/15 and XI 308/15) extend the control of the unfair character of terms to the Bauspar contractual savings scheme, which ...