Ordinance No. 2021-1247 published on September 29, 2021 transposes into French consumer law European Directives (EU) 2019/770 and (EU) 2019/771 of May 20, 2019 and introduces a new legal guarantee of conformity specific to digital contents and services.
The new provisions will apply as from January 1, 2022.
As part of the first network-wide Corporate Social Responsibility initiative called WLG ׀ impact organized by the World Law Group, a network of 61 leading independent law firms with more than 400 offices in major commercial centers worldwide to which our Firm belongs, we decided to work with a local association called Nettoyons Lyon (literally Let’s clean up Lyon) whose purpose is to organize actions to collect, retrieve, recover and recycle abandoned waste in public or natural spaces, as well as communication and awareness actions on eco-citizen behaviors.
The change of an employee’s place of work at the same time as the implementation of a lay-off plan constitutes an abuse of the employer’s power of direction.
For the first time, on October 14, 2021, the Paris Administrative Court ordered the French State to repair the consequences of its failure to combat climate change.
The Court ordered that the overrun of the greenhouse gas emissions cap set by the first carbon budget (2015-2018) be compensated by December 31, 2022 at the latest.
On October 4, 2021, André Soulier took part in a debate entitled “Joint dialogue on criminal justice” organized by the Faculty of Law of the University Jean Moulin Lyon III as part of the 2021 edition of the Night of the Law .
The decision issued on February 20, 2021 by the Commercial Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme court) rightly recalls that the failure to convene the statutory auditor to the ordinary general meeting does not result in the nullity of the deliberations made during such meeting.