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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]