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Bucharest Tribunal rejected the court action filled by Romaqua Group against Carpathian Springs
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, December 13, 2013
The team of lawyers from STOICA & Asociaţii composed by Cătălina Dicu, Dragoş Bogdan and Bogdan Popescu, under the coordination of Univ. prof. Valeriu Stoica PhD., successfully represented in court Carpathian Springs SA in the litigation initiated by SC Romaqua Group SA in connection with alleged false advertising committed by Carpathian Springs SA through the slogan „Aqua Carpatica – world’s purest mineral water!”
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STOICA & Asociaţii continues the series of consultation workshops in connection with the project regarding the optimizing of the cadaster and real property registration in Romania
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, December 5, 2013
STOICA & Asociații, law firm selected as consultant of the World Bank Group in the project „Real estate property – basis for national and European policies” from Operational Program for Technical Assistance – Priority line 1: Assistance in implementing the structural instruments and the coordination of the programs regarding the analysis and evaluation of the legislative framework of the cadaster and real property registration system in Romania, participated in the consultation workshops that took place in Timișoara (19-20 November), Cluj-Napoca (21-22 November) and Iași (26-27 November).
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Procedural controversies and “extravagant” solutions in the payment claim procedure
Publication: Juridice.ro, December 6, 2013
Author: Valentina Preda, Managing Associate
The provisions of the old GEO no. 119/2007 were applicable for the analyzed case. The litigation started before the entering into force of the New Civil Procedure Code.
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Author: Valentina Preda, Managing Associate
The provisions of the old GEO no. 119/2007 were applicable for the analyzed case. The litigation started before the entering into force of the New Civil Procedure Code.
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Another victory of STOICA & Asociaţii’s lawyers in the “war” against the clawback tax. At stake: savings amounting to Euro 3 mil.
Publication: Bizlawyer, November 1, 2013
Bucharest Appeal Court annulled on Thuesday, November, 5 another notification issued by the National Health Insurance House (NHIH), through which it communicated the values for computing the clawback tax for trimester I 2012, amounting to Euro 3 mil.
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Bucharest Appeal Court annulled on Thuesday, November, 5 another notification issued by the National Health Insurance House (NHIH), through which it communicated the values for computing the clawback tax for trimester I 2012, amounting to Euro 3 mil.
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STOICA & Asociaţii lawyers obtained the annulment of the local environmental tax amounting to approx. Euro 1.85 mil. established for ArcelorMittal Galați SA
New challenges of the stay of enforcement of a third party debt order
Clawback: STOICA & Asociaţii obtains the first annulment of the notifications issued for Q1-3 2012 as a result of the decision of the Constitutional Court
Interview with Valeriu Stoica, Founding Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii. About fidelity, integrity and courage
Interview with Valeriu Stoica, Founding Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii.
About fidelity, integrity and courage
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Interview with Valeriu Stoica, Founding Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii
Interview with Valeriu Stoica, Founding Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii. “I am a winner. Victories are sweet but the defeats give motivation”
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Interview with Dan Rareş Răducanu, Senior Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii
The most frequent issues
that the clients are confronting with in TMT are in connection with competition
and the implemention of the pertaining legislation
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STOICA & Asociaţii participated as sponsor at Canada Day
Cristiana Irinel Stoica and Valeriu Stoica, Founding Partners STOICA & Asociaţii participated at the reception organized in celebration of Canada Day by the Canada Embassy from Romania at the hotel Athenee Palace Hilton, in the company of His Excellency, the Ambassador of Canada and of Mrs. Elizabeth Hilaire-Beulne.
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Cristiana Irinel Stoica was awarded „Friederich Niemann Award for Personal Philantropy” of OvidiuRo association
On June, 26, at the Children’s Palace, the release event of the movie
„Before Midnight” took place in the presence of the actor Ethan
Hawke and of the director Richard Linklater for the purpose of
sustaining the program „Fiecare Copil în de Grădiniță” of the
association OvidiuRo, founded by Ethan’s mother, Leslie Hawke together
with Maria Gheorghiu.
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STOICA & Asociaţii, on the podium at Bucharest Corporate Games 2013
STOICA & Asociații participated with two teams in two competitions at Bucharest Corporate Games 2013: cyclism (Veronica Dobozi, Tudor Coltan and Mihai Stănescu), respectively semi-marathon (Bogdan Popescu, Alin Axente and Claudiu Galu).
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Lawyers from STOICA & Asociaţii, SCA David & Baias and the legal department of Orange Romania obtained the annulment of the sanctioning decision of Orange Romania for abuse of dominant position
By Decision no. 2/February 14, 2011, Competition Council decided the sanctioning of Orange Romania for abuse of dominant position in accordance with art. 6, letter a of the Competition Law, imposing as well a fine amounting to 147,975,967 lei (approx. Euro 34.7 mil.) representing 3.60% from the turnover of year 2010.
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STOICA & Asociaţii is promoting Romanian poetry
STOICA & Asociaţii sponsored the poetry volume “Space cleaning” of Medias borne Ligia Csiki that was released by the Foundation Alfa Publishing House from Cluj.
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Romanian Review of Private Law dedicates year 2013 to Valeriu Stoica
Paying homage for his entire activity as a jurist and taking into
account that this year he turns 60, 2013 was declared “Valeriu Stoica’s
year” by the “Romanian Review of Private Law”.
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STOICA & Asociaţii obtains a significant reduction of the fine applied by Competition Council to CECCAR
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, April 30, 2013
Through Decision no. 47 from 02.11.2010, Competition Council sanctioned the Association of the Accounting Experts and Authorized Bookkeepers from Romania for fixing tariffs through the Regulation regarding the establishment of a fine amounting to lei 4.056.264 representing 9.2% from the total earnings made by CECCAR in 2009.
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Through Decision no. 47 from 02.11.2010, Competition Council sanctioned the Association of the Accounting Experts and Authorized Bookkeepers from Romania for fixing tariffs through the Regulation regarding the establishment of a fine amounting to lei 4.056.264 representing 9.2% from the total earnings made by CECCAR in 2009.
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Dragoş Bogdan, speaker at the international conference „IP Law: recent developments in patents and trademarks”
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, April 30, 2013
The topic chosen by Dragos Bogdan is of utterly importance on the European level, taking into account that after 64 years of unsuccessful attempts, at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013 important steps towards a unitary European patent were undertaken.
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The topic chosen by Dragos Bogdan is of utterly importance on the European level, taking into account that after 64 years of unsuccessful attempts, at the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013 important steps towards a unitary European patent were undertaken.
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STOICA & Asociatii at the international seminar “Evolution of the notion of family and its influence on the legal testamentary line”
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, April 24, 2013
Veronica Dobozi addressed in the seminar a very actual and controversial topic regarding to “Modern methods of procreation and their influence on the Civil Code”.
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Veronica Dobozi addressed in the seminar a very actual and controversial topic regarding to “Modern methods of procreation and their influence on the Civil Code”.
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STOICA & Asociaţii irrevocably obtains the suspension of the enforcement of clawback tax
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, April 23, 2013
After important triumphs as the exclusion of the VAT tax from the computation of the clawback tax and the complete annulment of the notifications issued by CNAS, the lawyers from STOICA & Asociaţii coordinated by Prof. Univ. Valeriu STOICA obtained as well the first irrevocable resolutions with regard to the suspension of the notifications pertaining to clawback tax
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After important triumphs as the exclusion of the VAT tax from the computation of the clawback tax and the complete annulment of the notifications issued by CNAS, the lawyers from STOICA & Asociaţii coordinated by Prof. Univ. Valeriu STOICA obtained as well the first irrevocable resolutions with regard to the suspension of the notifications pertaining to clawback tax
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The lawyers from STOICA & Asociatii, ranked in the international legal guide Expert Guides 2013
Valeriu Stoica and Cristiana I. Stoica, Founding Partners in STOICA & Asociatii, were ranked as leading professionals in Commercial Arbitration in the international legal guide Expert Guides, 2013 edition, published by Legal Media Group.
Dialogue on cultural matters. Valeriu Stoica on motherland and patriotism – Bucharest, April 11, 2013
Publication: Juridice.ro, April 8, 2013
To read the entire material (in Romanian), please access the link from below:
http://www.juridice.ro/253137/suete-culturale-la-facultatea-de-drept-valeriu-stoica-despre-patrie-si-patriotism-bucuresti-11-aprilie-2013.html
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To read the entire material (in Romanian), please access the link from below:
http://www.juridice.ro/253137/suete-culturale-la-facultatea-de-drept-valeriu-stoica-despre-patrie-si-patriotism-bucuresti-11-aprilie-2013.html
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Professor Valeriu Stoica, speaker at the debate “Constitution and Democracy. The Romanian version”
Publication: Juridice.ro, April 8, 2013
To read the entire material (in Romanian), please access the link from below:
http://www.juridice.ro/253153/profesorul-valeriu-stoica-la-dezbaterea-constitutie-si-democratie-varianta-romaneasca.html
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To read the entire material (in Romanian), please access the link from below:
http://www.juridice.ro/253153/profesorul-valeriu-stoica-la-dezbaterea-constitutie-si-democratie-varianta-romaneasca.html
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STOICA & Asociatii obtains the annulment of a claw-back tax amounting to approx. Euro 1.7 mil. for an important player from the pharma industry
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, April 8, 2013
By Decision no. 39 from February 5,2013, the Constitutional Court of Romania admitted the inconstitutionality exception of GEO no. 77/2011, showing unambiguously that the inclusion of the VAT in the calculation of the claw-back tax represents a double taxation.
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By Decision no. 39 from February 5,2013, the Constitutional Court of Romania admitted the inconstitutionality exception of GEO no. 77/2011, showing unambiguously that the inclusion of the VAT in the calculation of the claw-back tax represents a double taxation.
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The right to be forgotten and erased, in debate on European level
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, April 2, 2013
Year 2013 brings in the spotlight aspects regarding protection of the personal data, in the context of the debate with regards to the draft of the European reglementation in connection with the protection of the personal data, published a year ago by the European Commission, which will substitute the existing Directive regarding the data protection from 1995.
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Year 2013 brings in the spotlight aspects regarding protection of the personal data, in the context of the debate with regards to the draft of the European reglementation in connection with the protection of the personal data, published a year ago by the European Commission, which will substitute the existing Directive regarding the data protection from 1995.
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STOICA & Asociatiiin the first place in the legal directories from the last four years in the area of Dispute Resolution and Arbitration
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, March 28, 2013
STOICA & Asociatii was ranked in the international legal guide Legal 500, 2013 edition, for the fourth consecutive year, on the first level of professional performance in Dispute Resolution area of practice. The activity of the litigators coordinated by Cristiana and Valeriu Stoica was evidenced as well in other international legal guides, being thus positioned on the first level in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and PLC Which Lawyer?
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STOICA & Asociatii was ranked in the international legal guide Legal 500, 2013 edition, for the fourth consecutive year, on the first level of professional performance in Dispute Resolution area of practice. The activity of the litigators coordinated by Cristiana and Valeriu Stoica was evidenced as well in other international legal guides, being thus positioned on the first level in Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and PLC Which Lawyer?
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Arbitration 2013, Romania. Analysis signed by Stoica & Asociatii in Getting the Deal Through
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, March 22, 2013
Getting the Deal Through, one of the most prestigious international legal guides, published in section Arbitration 2013, regarding Romania, an analysis signed by three lawyers from STOICA & Asociatii: Cristiana I Stoica, Founding Partener, lawyers Daniel Aragea and Andrei Buga.
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Getting the Deal Through, one of the most prestigious international legal guides, published in section Arbitration 2013, regarding Romania, an analysis signed by three lawyers from STOICA & Asociatii: Cristiana I Stoica, Founding Partener, lawyers Daniel Aragea and Andrei Buga.
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Interview with Anca Liana Caraiola. On the synergy of competition lawyers
Publication: Juridice.ro, March 22, 2013
Author: Anca Liana Caraiola, senior partner, STOICA & Asociaţii
To read the entire interview (in Romanian), please access the link from below:
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Author: Anca Liana Caraiola, senior partner, STOICA & Asociaţii
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European Commission fined Microsoft for Euro 561 million
Publication: Juridice.ro, March 6, 2013
Author: Dragos Bogdan, senior partner, Mihai Stănescu, associate lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
On March 6, 2013, the European Commission announced the fining of Microsoft company for Euro 561 million for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users of Windows system a browser choice screen other than Internet Explorer.
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Author: Dragos Bogdan, senior partner, Mihai Stănescu, associate lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
On March 6, 2013, the European Commission announced the fining of Microsoft company for Euro 561 million for failing to comply with its commitments to offer users of Windows system a browser choice screen other than Internet Explorer.
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Anca Liana Caraiola, Senior Partner, was interviewed by the website Bizlawyer.ro
Dependent on the clients’ needs and the volume of work, it is created a synergy between the activity of the lawyers’ teams participating in the competition law file in the view of better managing the complicated legal facts with which they are confronting.
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STOICA & Asociaţii obtains the rejection by the Constitutional Court of the plea of unconstitutionality raised by E.ON România SRL in an international arbitration case
Publication: Bizlawyer.ro, March 10, 2013
Authors: Laura Elena Radu, senior partner and Daniel Aragea, associate lawyer STOICA & Asociaţii
The team of lawyers from STOICA & Asociaţii composed by Prof. Valeriu Stoica, Laura Elena Radu and Daniel Aragea assisted and successfully represented the company Electrica S.A. in front of the Constitutional Court of Romania regarding the plea of unconstitutionality of GEO no. 143/2007 and of other enactments.
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Authors: Laura Elena Radu, senior partner and Daniel Aragea, associate lawyer STOICA & Asociaţii
The team of lawyers from STOICA & Asociaţii composed by Prof. Valeriu Stoica, Laura Elena Radu and Daniel Aragea assisted and successfully represented the company Electrica S.A. in front of the Constitutional Court of Romania regarding the plea of unconstitutionality of GEO no. 143/2007 and of other enactments.
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Trademark counterfeiting through a posteriori registered trademark. Ruling of ECJ contrary to the Romanian case law
Publication: Juridice.ro, March 4, 2013
Author: Dragos Bogdan, senior partner, Andreea Micu, senior lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
The decision that we would like to summarize and comment in the following is going to change a constant case law of the Romanian courts as regards trademarks.
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Author: Dragos Bogdan, senior partner, Andreea Micu, senior lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
The decision that we would like to summarize and comment in the following is going to change a constant case law of the Romanian courts as regards trademarks.
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Cristiana I. Stoica, Founding Partner, granted the award “Best SMEs Supporter” in Business Review Gala 2013
Business Review magazine organized the 8th edition of the event „BR Annual Investment Awards 2013” on March 4, 2013 at Athenee Palace Hilton Hotel Bucharest. This year’s event recognizes the achievements of local and international companies doing business in Romania. Cristiana I. Stoica granted to Transilvania Bank the award “Best SMEs Supporter” for launching “Contul primul an gratuit” financial product.
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Seizure over bank accounts: terminological confusion or manifestation of the criminal law’s autonomy?
Publication: Juridice.ro, February 27, 2013
Author: Marieta Avram, Senior Partner, Andra-Roxana Ilie, senior associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
An issue that frequently arises in the banking practice refers to the effects of the establishment of the seizure over bank accounts in connection with money held in the debtor’s bank accounts that are opened at credit institutions.
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Author: Marieta Avram, Senior Partner, Andra-Roxana Ilie, senior associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
An issue that frequently arises in the banking practice refers to the effects of the establishment of the seizure over bank accounts in connection with money held in the debtor’s bank accounts that are opened at credit institutions.
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Anca Liana Caraiola, Senior Partner, participated as speaker in the conference “Difficult labor law issues”
In the conference organized by Juridice.ro together with The Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of Romania as of February 22, 2013, Anca-Liana
Caraiola held the presentation over „Controversial case-law issues in
connection with the effects of the temporary labor incapacity over the
measure of disciplinary disposal”.
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Malpraxis, the sore point of the medical practice. Case Csoma vs. Romaniei
Publication: Bizlawyer, February 17, 2013
Author: Dan Rareş Răducanu, Senior Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii
The new law regarding malpraxis will have to introduce clear notions and criteria for a better management of the malpraxis cases.
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Author: Dan Rareş Răducanu, Senior Partner, STOICA & Asociaţii
The new law regarding malpraxis will have to introduce clear notions and criteria for a better management of the malpraxis cases.
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The debate „Medicine and Law, a necessary dialogue”
The event was organized at the Romanian Academy by STOICA & Asociatii together with publication house Wolters Kluwer Romania, with the occasion of the official launch of electronic version (eBook) of the book “Dreptul sănătății. Frontul comun al medicului și al juristului” written by PhD. Professor Ion Turcu.
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WTR 1000 ranking, 2013 edition: STOICA&Asociaţii in the first tier
The 2013 edition of the international ranking WTR 1000 ranked STOICA & Asociații in the first tier (Gold band) of the Romanian law firms that are specialized in trademarks. According to WTR 1000, “[…] STOICA & Asociatii remains an important player on the Romanian marketplace, and one which peers continue to turn to when conflicts of interest arise. “The quality of its output is routinely excellent.” Dragoş Bogdan recently moved here to spearhead its burgeoning IP practice: “He is a brilliant litigator and technician with a substantial knowledge of European case law.”
Seizure of husbands’ goods that are as well professionals
Publication: Juridice.ro, February 4, 2013
Author: Marius Chelaru, junior lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
The matrimonial regime represents the totality of the legal norms that regulate the husbands’ relations and those between the husbands and third parties with regard to the goods and debts of the husbands.
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Author: Marius Chelaru, junior lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
The matrimonial regime represents the totality of the legal norms that regulate the husbands’ relations and those between the husbands and third parties with regard to the goods and debts of the husbands.
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The right of the public prosecutor to fill an action before a civil court regarding the annulment of the forged deed
Publication: Juridice.ro, January 25, 2013
Author: Valentina Preda, Managing Associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
An issue was widely debated in the judicial practice in connection with the capacity of the prosecutor that finalized the criminal investigation of the offence of forging of documents with a solution of unfolding the criminal investigation (irrespective if it is about the exception for criminal investigation or the cessation of the criminal investigation).
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Author: Valentina Preda, Managing Associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
An issue was widely debated in the judicial practice in connection with the capacity of the prosecutor that finalized the criminal investigation of the offence of forging of documents with a solution of unfolding the criminal investigation (irrespective if it is about the exception for criminal investigation or the cessation of the criminal investigation).
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The right of knowing the biological identity
Publication: Juridice.ro, January 21, 2013
Author: Veronica Dobozi, Managing Associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
In the last decade, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights developed with regard to the implementation of art. 8 from the European Convention for Human Rights – the right to respect for one's private and family life – forged a new component of the notion of private life.
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Author: Veronica Dobozi, Managing Associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
In the last decade, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights developed with regard to the implementation of art. 8 from the European Convention for Human Rights – the right to respect for one's private and family life – forged a new component of the notion of private life.
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ECHR. Illegal measures in telephone tapping activity. Public disclosure. Prision conviction. Protection of the informants. Rejection of pertinent evidences’ request. Bucur and Toma vs. Romania.
Publication: Juridice.ro, January 15, 2013
Author: Andreea Micu, senior associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
The European Court of Human Rights passed on January 8, 2013 the judgment in the case Bucur and Toma vs. Romania, through which was determined the violation by the Romanian State of art. 10 (liberty of expression) and of art. 6 (right to a fair trial) from the European Convention of Human Rights regarding the first plaintiff (Constantin Bucur), as well of art. 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) and of art. 13 (Right to an effective remedy) related to art. 8 from the Convention, in connection with the other two plaintiffs (Mircea si Sorana Toma).
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Author: Andreea Micu, senior associate, STOICA & Asociaţii
The European Court of Human Rights passed on January 8, 2013 the judgment in the case Bucur and Toma vs. Romania, through which was determined the violation by the Romanian State of art. 10 (liberty of expression) and of art. 6 (right to a fair trial) from the European Convention of Human Rights regarding the first plaintiff (Constantin Bucur), as well of art. 8 (Right to respect for private and family life) and of art. 13 (Right to an effective remedy) related to art. 8 from the Convention, in connection with the other two plaintiffs (Mircea si Sorana Toma).
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The legal magazine Lawyer Monthly published an interview with Cristiana Stoica, founding partner in STOICA & Asociaţii
The international legal magazine „Lawyer Monthly” published in its digital edition from January 2013 an extensive interview with Cristiana Stoica, founding partner of STOICA & Asociații, about, among other, the benefits of the arbitration as opposed to the judiciary system and the last amendments issued in connection with the arbitration rules in Romania.
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The watchdog of pharma industry: National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices
Publication: Juridice.ro, January 11, 2013
Author: Tiberiu Radulescu, junior lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
As any authority of surveillance and sanctioning should act, the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices has taken its duty seriously: it oversees the pharma companies regarding the compliance with the law and punishes them in case they fail to “do their homeworks”. With the only difference that, as opposed to school, they do not receive bad marks for bad conduct but high fines.
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Author: Tiberiu Radulescu, junior lawyer, STOICA & Asociaţii
As any authority of surveillance and sanctioning should act, the National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices has taken its duty seriously: it oversees the pharma companies regarding the compliance with the law and punishes them in case they fail to “do their homeworks”. With the only difference that, as opposed to school, they do not receive bad marks for bad conduct but high fines.
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Dragoş Bogdan, partner of STOICA & Asociaţii, has been interviewed by the online magazine, Bizlawyer
„The capacity of the IP team of STOICA& Asociatii to rapidly react
in case unexpected events occur, through delivering of professional
legal solutions is crucial for the good performance of our clients’
activity.”, Dragos stated.
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