On 19 November 2025, the Swiss Federal Council decided that a new criminal law provision on stalking will enter into force on 1 January 2026. Cases of “stalking” are…
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In the latest edition of the journal “Successio”, Julia Henninger and Balz Hösly examine the recent decision of the Swiss Supreme Court on the valuation of companies that depend on…
Josef Alkatout, Esq., Head of family law, comments in the Tribune de Genève, a decision rendered by the Swiss Supreme Court on visitation rights of an “intended parent” regarding children…
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…
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…
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…