The Trade Secrets Directive must be taken seriously.
THE TRADE SECRETS DIRECTIVE MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY – ALSO IN DENMARK 1 year in prison. It had major consequences for an employee to obtain information about the company’s trade secrets and to copy this information to their own email. The circumstances were that shortly before a self-chosen resignation, it turned out that an employee […]
Charging a waiting time fee was unlawful
It was in violation of the rules for charging fees when the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen) sent an invoice in October 2023 in connection with a control visit to an assembly center. During the visit, where everything else was found to be in order, the official veterinarian had to wait for two hours […]
Sønderby Legal wins against the Danish Appeals Board for Environmental and Food Affairs in the High Court
Sønderby Legal wins against the Danish Appeals Board for Environmental and Food Affairs in the High Court, which was represented by the Attorney General By Per Hansen, Attorney and Partner, and Stine Petersen, Legal Counsel – Sønderby Legal A 9-year-old case regarding investment in environmental technology in a barn on a farm in Jutland is […]
Contaminated land in real estate transactions triggered a significant discount
The Frederiksberg Court has just delivered judgment in a case concerning defects in real property. The claimant buyers, represented by the undersigned attorney Mikkel Wrang, succeeded in their claim for payment of DKK 300,000 in the form of a proportional discount in the purchase price against the seller, as a gravel layer of approx. 175 […]
Sønderby Legal Welcomes New Partner
Attorney Mikkel Wrang Joins as Partner Based at Sønderby Legal’s Copenhagen Office For the past year, Mikkel Wrang has run his own practice and has been affiliated as an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen in civil procedure and at the University of Southern Denmark in constitutional law. We look forward to a productive […]
FødevareDanmark wins case against both the EU Commission and the Danish state
The EU Court of Justice has just ruled in favor of FødevareDanmark, stating that it was anti-competitive and therefore illegal when the Danish government back in 2013 granted wastewater discounts to industrial slaughterhouses. Furthermore, the court states that EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager was disqualified when the EU Commission initially rejected FødevareDanmark’s complaint. It was […]
Law firm recruits young talent from its own ranks
At the law firm Sønderby Legal, three newly qualified lawyers started on the same day, February 1, 2024. These are Pernille Falk Meyer Larsen, Tobias Egeris Svendsen, and Victoria Stroyer Andersen, who until then had been employed as students at the firm. “The feedback from the lawyers who had them on their team was positive […]
Abuse regulations can be applied to small mergers
In a recent ruling, the European Court of Justice has established that just because the EU has introduced prior control over whether large mergers constitute an abuse of dominant position, small mergers may also be in violation of competition law. The ruling concludes years of legal disagreement in several member states, including Denmark. The dispute […]
Lawyer questions the state’s role in >>scandalous<< repayment case
Lawyer Hans Sønderby questions why the state has not legally and financially secured the farmers by seeking the EU Commission’s approval in advance. He believes that the state’s recent application to the EU Commission for a new compensation scheme on lowland soil is a “legal confession case.” Article published in Effektivt Landbrug on December 2, […]
Member State abandons double taxation following legal pressure
Following pressure from Sønderby Legal, a Member State has, with effect from the current financial year, been persuaded to abandon a complex double taxation scheme. When Member States draw up their national corporation tax rules, they must, as is well known, do so with respect for the EU’s rules on the internal market. The EU […]