The knock for knock clauses Oil and gas and offshore sector contracts (survey, drilling, EPC, etc.) contain standardized knock for knock clauses, sometimes referred to as mutual indemnity or hold harmless. These clauses provide that each party is responsible for the loss of their assets or damage to their employees, even if these damages…
Zunarelli – Studio Legale Associato has represented a carrier in opposition proceedings against an order for payment in which the shipper, whom had been ordered to pay the freights, had opposed as a set-off the damages suffered because the goods carried from Italy to Serbia were spoilt. The judge dismissed the opposition and confirmed the…
An Italian company imported kitchen utensils from China through the Port of Trieste. The goods bore a mark of quality of a German company. While they were going through customs for the completion of procedures, the Financial Police of Trieste ordered the seizure of fifteen hundred household products for precautionary reasons considering the affixed mark…
Prof. Stefano Zunarelli, Franco Fiorenza and Andrea Giardini have successfully represented Cosepuri Soc. Coop. in a proceeding before the Regional Administrative Court (TAR) of Bologna, concerning the participation in a tender launched by the Municipality of Bologna for the concession to operate school transport services for disabled students for the 2015-2017 two year term, with…
The Trieste Office of the Firm has been appointed to defend the person under investigation in a criminal trial for manslaughter resulting from an accident between a car and an articulated vehicle. In the case in hand, the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the competent Court im-mediately ordered non repeatable technical as-sessments with an exami-nation of…
If the customs field is already complex in itself, it is easy to imagine how it can become even more complicated when it concerns the transit of goods protected by patents. This specific aspect has been recently dealt with by the Firm, in a case in which the release of goods had been unlawfully suspended…