In this article published by Le Temps, Me Alkatout outlines the financial changes for same-sex couples since the legislative amendment allowing them to marry came into effect.
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A reminder from the Federal Court: in his latest column in the Journal de l’Immobilier, in partnership with Le Temps, Me Patrick Blaser reviews a recent decision of the Federal Court (TF,…
In the columns of Le Temps, Josef Alkatout discusses the Federal Court’s decision 5A_755/2020 of 16 March 2021, which redefines homoparentality. He notes that the interest of the child replaces the consanguineous link as…
Josef Alkatout shares his opinion on the decision of the Federal Court 5A_311/2019 of 11 November 2020 in an article entitled “Les contributions d’entretien d’enfant en voie de changement” published in the columns of…
The partial revision of the Swiss Copyright Act (CA) came into force on 1 April 2020. Its main aim is to adapt copyright to the digital age, in particular by…
In a decision of 29 July 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that a company that operates a website to sell its products and inserts Facebook’s “like” button…
Borel & Barbey has taken part to the consultation of the draft Financial Services Ordinance (FinSO), Financial Institutions Ordinance (FinIO) and the Supervisory Organisation Ordinance (SOO). To access our position paper…
The Memorandum of Case Law summarizes a selection of decisions for the given period (in French).
The Memorandum of Case Law summarizes a selection of decisions for the period in question (in French).
This document (only in French) provides a summary of judicial decisions published during the concerned time period.
On 17 January 2018, the Swiss Federal Council published a draft bill which proposes the conversion of bearer shares into registered shares by operation of law and thereby would abolish…
This document (only in French) provides a summary of judicial decisions published during the concerned time period.
This document (only in French) provides a summary of judicial decisions published during the concerned time period.
This document (only in French) provides a summary of judicial decisions published during the concerned time period.
This document (only in French) provides a summary of judicial decisions published during the concerned time period.