BALEX's attorneys regularly support non-profit institutions such as the voluntary preservation of historical monuments, the Foundation Eye Clinic or the Animal Welfare of both Basel cantons. Another project is the fruit juice producer in Hellikon. As the Aargauer and the Neue Fricktaler Zeitung reported, the historic ‘Mosti’ in Hellikon was put back into operation [...]
Following the Dietikon District Court, the Basel-Landschaft Criminal Court sentenced an Uber driver for violating the taxi law in the beginning of November 2017. He received a conditional fine of 60 daily rates of CHF 70.00 and a fine of CHF 500.00. The public prosecutor's office of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft accused the 40-year-old [...]
Boris Becker gives his first big exclusive interview in the NZZ after the bankruptcy report. He comments on the dispute with the bank in the UK and the legal proceedings against Hans-Dieter Cleven in Zug. Becker points out that he is particularly at odds with the bank over the level of interest rates; the [...]
Peter Knechtli's Basel media service Online Reports was forced to moderate its reporting on the intervention of BALEX. In violation of journalistic duties of care, Knechtli had identified a defendant in a report. As a result, BALEX threatened a lawsuit and Online Reports moderated the current reporting. But Knechtli turned out to be a [...]
The Cantonal Court of Baselland has sentenced an assistant to three years' imprisonment for embezzlement of Mündel funds. The five-member chamber followed the appeal of the public prosecutor's office. Experts consider the verdict to be severe. The Court justified the severity by referring to the publicity this case will attract as a warning to [...]
Again and again, SMEs and trading firms agree on fixed prices, e.g. for tenders. Agreements or "coordinated action" among market participants is always delicate from the point of view of antitrust law per se. The German Cartel Act (KG) explicitly prohibits agreements which (a) eliminate or b) unlawfully restrict competition (Art. 5 KG). Agreements [...]
There is still a great need for action in time recording for employees. Article 46 of the Labour Code (ArG) obliges employers to keep all lists or other documents containing the information necessary for the implementation of the Act and its ordinances available for executive and supervisory bodies. In particular, the duration and beginning [...]
The public prosecutor's office in Basel-Landschaft has filed charges in the Beqiri case . A concrete date for the monster trial is not yet known. It should take place at the earliest at the end of this year or at the latest in spring 2018. The criminal court will next examine the indictment and [...]
BALEX supports the economics meeting 2017 organized by the FDP in Rheinfelden. Katrin Amacker (President Regio Basiliensis) and Peter Grünenfelder (Director Avenir Suisse) discuss under the direction of Gaby Gerber the topic ‘Global networking - curse or blessing’. The event will take place on Monday, 4 September 2017, 18:00 hrs, at the Restaurant Schützen [...]
The reference rate for rents has fallen to a record low. Landlords are increasingly confronted with requests for rent reductions. When must the tenant be granted a rent reduction? A rent reduction is based on the mortgage reference rate published quarterly by the Federal Office for Housing (as at 31 March 2017: 1.5%). If [...]