Interest rate at record low: rent reductions?

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 [...]

2019-02-02T15:16:29+01:0029. July, 2017|Current, Leasehold law|

Antitrust: Record fines for Google

The EU Commission has imposed the highest fine ever on a single company for alleged abuse of its market power. The case against Google was initiated seven years ago when competitors complained. Google favoured its own shopping platform 'Google Shopping' over other shopping platforms and abused its monopoly on price comparison services. Google now [...]

2019-02-02T15:42:46+01:0020. July, 2017|Antitrust law, Current|

The Beqiri case: Cantonal court reprimands public prosecutor’s office

The Cantonal court Basel-Landschaft has criticised the public prosecutor's office for not properly investigating the Beqiri case. Specifically, it involved a witness who contacted the police and reported a planned assassination attempt on kickboxing multiple world champion Shemsi Beqiri . The Cantonal court concluded that the public prosecutor's office did not use the necessary [...]

2019-02-02T15:05:02+01:0011. July, 2017|Criminal law, Current|

Admeira – unholy alliance or model for the future?

Dr Jascha Schneider-Marfels represents Tamedia and the Swiss Media Association before the Federal Court in the case of Admeira v. SRG (see also BVerG A-1703/2016). He has recently published on this topic in the trade journal‘Medialex‘. In his article, he presents the current status of the process and the discussion. Further Dr. Jascha Schneider-Marfels [...]

2019-02-02T15:15:09+01:0011. July, 2017|Current, Media law|
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