SEASON'S GREETINGS FROM BLB STUDIO LEGALE

• Saturday 23 December 2017

China lowered down import custom duties on wide range of products

• Monday 18 December 2017
• Altro, Made in Italy, Relazioni internazionali
• Asia, Europa, Italia

Last December, China reduced import custom duties over 187 different products. Having regard to the extent of the lowering down (on average, the rate is halved), at a European level the operation is expected to increase up to 8 billion of value the export between UE and China. Most of the ...

Living will: bill becomes law

• Friday 15 December 2017
• Diritto Costituzionale, Novità legislative
• Europa, Italia, Spagna e America Latina

The bill on the living will – approved by the House on April 20 2017 – was approved definitively by the Senate on December 14.   The bill, consisting of 8 articles, protects the person’ constitutional right to self-determination, or rather the right to freely choose...

THE LIMITS OF THE OCCURRED USURY: ITALIAN SUPREME COURT DECISION N. 24675/2017

• Friday 08 December 2017
• Contratti, Diritto Civile, Diritto Commerciale e Contratti, Diritto Penale, Novità legislative
• Italia

In the opinion of the Unified Section (Sezioni Unite), if the clause on the interest rate was agreed on before the coming into force of Law N 108 of 1996, the fact that, that rate occur to be higher than the usury treshold during the effectiveness of the contract, does not make that clause null ...

Court of Cassation, judgement n.53823/2017: excluded the aggravating factor due to the presence of m

• Wednesday 06 December 2017
• Diritto di famiglia
• Italia

With the judgement n. 53823 the Court of Cassation excluded the aggravating factor in cases of mistreatment in the family in the presence of very young children. The Supreme Court motivates the decision by reasoning that the aggravating circumstance pursuant by the art. 61 paragraph 11-...