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This year was marked by several landmark decisions relating to employers’ obligation to guarantee the safety of their employees. Companies are therefore more and more susceptible to being held liable in this regards, and the Cour de cassation (France’s highest court) is stricter in its approach regarding the scope of the obligations imposed on companies. […]

On several occasions (i.e. on June 21, November 2 and 15, 2011), the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) quashed, by virtue of Article 6§1 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Trademark law and business law must permanently evolve and address new practices that emerge from the development of the Internet. It is indeed necessary to strike the appropriate balance between the interests of companies wishing to protect themselves against unfair business practices and to protect their trademark(s) and the necessity to guarantee free market competition. […]

By judgment dated December 1, 2011, the Court of Appeals of Nîmes authored a new chapter of the “procedural” saga of BELVEDERE, a worldwide leader in wine and spirits. As counsel of one of the largest creditors of BELVEDERE, this is a case that we carefully monitor. The judgment of December 1 did not settle […]

More and more companies use systems and devices enabling the geolocation of their employees. To address this issue, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (French Data Protection Authority, hereinafter the “CNIL”) adopted as early as in 2006 a recommendation relating more specifically to the implementation of devices designed to track motor vehicles (Deliberation […]

A CONCEPT TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY COMPANIES IN THEIR PREVENTION POLICY AND A SPECIFIC OBLIGATION TO BE COMPLIED WITH BY CERTAIN COMPANIES BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2012 The concept of physical strain at work (or physical strain in the workplace) became an important issue in the French labor and employment landscape during the debates […]