LawellMcMiller has obtained for a Belgian multimedia group, number one on the magazine market, the first court decision in Belgium extending the accepted reasons for not or no longer having to execute a court injunction to the legal impossibility of being able to comply with it.

LawellMcMiller obtained several million euros in compensation for a large retail company which had rented premises that were later found to be dangerous, and was forced, due to the refusal of its landlord, to take the initiative to remedy the situation itself in order to protect its customers, staff and passers-by as much as possible.

We obtained the denial of a demand for compensation brought to court by several professional football players claiming to recognize themselves in video games published by an industry leader based in the UK.

Our firm acted as national expert before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Tas) in Lausanne in a dispute between a well-known professional cyclist and his former team.

One of our lawyers coordinated the first European Commission comparative law studies leading to the development of electronic data transfer in the Member States of the European Economic Area.

Our firm recently obtained the outright acquittal of a professional cyclist, an Olympic champion, wrongly accused of having bought a victory from one of his competitors.

In close collaboration with our correspondents in Paris, we obtained before the Administrative Court of Toulon (France), the full reimbursement of a General Social Contribution (CSG) applied in violation of European law by the French authorities to a Belgian resident at the time of selling her villa on the French Riviera.

At the end of several legal proceedings, all won, we have succeeded in allowing for the Belgian French-speaking political world, the written press, and our client’s main competitors, new private general interest television channels.

Our firm claimed, defended and obtained a frequency for a new private thematic radio station.

Within the framework of a Council of Europe mission, one of our lawyers assisted in the training of judges of the Republic of Azerbaijan in European judicial practices, and the drafting of the new civil procedural code of this nation.