KG LEGAL established cooperation with Irish law firm – Shannons Solicitors. The cooperation concerning personal injury on an non-exclusive basis. KG LEGAL and Shannons Solicitors will help each other inter alia in translating legal documents, writing legal opinions.
Shannons Solicitors is a law firm based in Ireland specialising in Personal Injury, Property and Family Law. They also provide services in Criminal Law and Notary Public.
In a recent few years you could read about the Volkswagen emissions scandal (also known as “emissionsgate” or “dieselgate”). Our new business partner is dealing with this case and you can find details on their website: “Shannons have now issued and served court proceedings on VW Germany, VW Ireland and retail garages on behalf of clients affected by the VW emissions scandal.
The action is for breach of contract, misrepresentation and fraud seeking damages for all losses incurred including depreciation”. (source: http://www.shannons.ie/vw-scandal/)
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On 30th November we had an special opportunity to take part in online Seminar organized by APIS Europe. Two speakers – prof. Dr. Nikolay Natov from Sofia University and Hristo Konstantinov, deputy managing Director of APIS Europe JSC discussed important matters regarding revised regime of jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in civil and commercial matters in the light of new EU Regulation No 1215/2012 and presented two modern solutions : EuroCases and Link Detector.
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Małgorzata Kiełtyka, KG LEGAL’s Founding Partner and Head of English Desk has been involved in a project concerning the translation of a publication created by PhD Andrzej Grabowski, assistant professor from the Department of Legal Theory from the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Jagiellonian Uniwersity in Cracow. The book relates to Juristic Concept of the Validity of Statutory Law – a Critique of Contemporary Legal Nonpositivism. Its English version has been published by Springer.
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The contract with a foreign business partner – what Polish company has to pay attention to? – Part 2
„Clear and coherent contract with foreign counterparty is the key to success” – truism or the most urgent issue for Polish companies? The authors’ practise regarding legal advice indicates, that polish entrepreneurs conclude contracts with foreign counterparties on grave adverse conditions for its legal position. We present hereafter the most common mistakes that Polish companies make by conducting foreign contracts.
“7 deadly sins” are:
4. Lack of proper security of payments
Polish entrepreneurs do not impose their conditions of payments by using clauses providing security of receiving payments for foreign service or product, which has been sent aboard. There are multiple simple legal instruments, which (in case of being included in the contract) could be surely recognized by foreign companies as standard solutions, acceptable in those situations. Various forms and types of international security considering commercial contracts represent so spacious thoughts, that authors decided to discuss them in a separate article.
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– The contract with a foreign contractor – what Polish company has to pay attention to?
„Clear and coherent contract with foreign counterparty is the key to success” – truism or the most urgent issue for Polish companies? The authors’ practise regarding legal advice indicates, that polish entrepreneurs conclude contracts with foreign counterparties on grave adverse conditions for its legal position. We present hereafter the most common mistakes that Polish companies make by conducting foreign contracts.
“7 deadly sins” are:
1. Discrepancy of various language versions
Parties coming from various legal jurisdictions often use different language versions of the contract. Those language versions are different, when it comes to used terminology. Parties do not clearly indicate, which of them is the most significant. It concerns in particular situations, when parties coming not from English-speaking jurisdiction prepare the contract in English language (which is found to be a standard, but this language is still “foreign” for them); it is worth in those cases to be based on a mother language of at least one party.
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