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24/05/2023
Thou shalt not con­tra­dict it­self
The com­mon law prin­ciple that pre­vents someone from ar­guing something or as­sert­ing a right that con­tra­dicts what they pre­vi­ously said or agreed to by law is ad­mit­ted by Mone­g­asque jur­is­dic­tions for the...
16/05/2023
The rights of the per­son in po­lice cus­tody
Law n°1.533 dated 9th Decem­ber 2022 not­ably mod­i­fied art­icle 60-9 bis of the crim­in­al pro­ced­ure code re­lat­ing to the rights of the per­son in po­lice cus­tody and spe­cified that the per­son in po­lice cus­tody...
09/05/2023
The right to be as­sisted by a law­yer when be­ing freely in­ter­viewed by the...
You have been summoned to a free in­ter­view by the Po­lice and wish to know if you can be as­sisted by a law­yer? Law n° 1.533 of Decem­ber 9, 2022 re­lat­ing to the pre­lim­in­ary in­quiry (« en­quête prélim­in­aire...
04/05/2023
Re­lo­ca­tion of the ha­bitu­al res­id­ence of a pro­tec­ted adult abroad - does...
Tak­ing in­to ac­count that it is es­sen­tial to en­sure the pro­tec­tion of adults who, be­cause of an impair­ment of their per­son­al ca­pa­cit­ies, are un­able to pro­tect their in­terests in a cross-bor­der con­text...
28/04/2023
Cir­cu­la­tion doc­u­ment for minors: a multi-pur­pose solu­tion!
Of­ten un­der­es­tim­ated, the cir­cu­la­tion doc­u­ment de­serves the full at­ten­tion of for­eign res­id­ents in the Prin­cip­al­ity. What is a cir­cu­la­tion doc­u­ment? The cir­cu­la­tion doc­u­ment is an of­fi­cial doc­u­ment...
25/04/2023
Debt "in the mak­ing"
Gar­nish­ment is a pro­tect­ive pro­ced­ure use­ful to any cred­it­or seek­ing to en­sure the pay­ment of sums due to them.This pro­ced­ure has two ma­jor ad­vant­ages:It is a non-con­tra­dict­ory pro­ced­ure: the cred­it­or...
21/04/2023
Lodging a com­plaint in Monaco: the fil­ter of the or­din­ary com­plaint
Do you wish to lodge a com­plaint in Monaco? You are hes­it­at­ing between an or­din­ary com­plaint (plainte simple) and a com­plaint with a civil ac­tion (plainte avec con­sti­tu­tion de partie civile)? This art­icle...
18/04/2023
The ad­vance on the in­her­it­ance share: a solu­tion for a par­tial re­lease...
It is a well-known fact that set­tling an es­tate takes time, par­tially due to the ne­ces­sity to carry out the ad­min­is­trat­ive and leg­al form­al­it­ies and the di­vi­sion of as­sets.In some cases, the heirs and/or...
13/04/2023
Con­struc­tion works and ab­nor­mal neigh­bour­hood dis­turb­ances in Monaco
For many years, Mone­g­asque case law has sought to con­cili­ate urb­an ex­pan­sion and qual­ity of life by sanc­tion­ing ab­nor­mal neigh­bour­hood dis­turb­ances on the basis of ex­tra-con­trac­tu­al civil li­ab­il­ity, in­de­pend­ently...
12/04/2023
The de­fence of minor's in­terests in the pro­ceed­ings
The role of a minor in civil pro­ceed­ings is now re­cog­nised at both na­tion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al level.By way of il­lus­tra­tion, a minor who is cap­able of dis­cern­ment may be heard in the con­text of di­vorce...
22/03/2023
CMS European M&A Study 2023
The CMS Cor­por­ate/M&A Group is pleased to launch the 15th edi­tion of the European M&A Study
07/02/2023
Fil­ing for Mone­g­asque trade­marks is now pos­sible on­line!
The be­gin­ning of 2023 marks a sim­pli­fic­a­tion of the pro­ced­ures for fil­ing and re­new­ing na­tion­al trade­marks in Monaco: the pro­ced­ures can now be car­ried out by elec­tron­ic means.Im­ple­men­ted in part­ner­ship...