Verkrijging door extinctieve verjaring van beperkte zakelijke genotsrechten door middel van inbezitneming is een onderwerp waarover verwarring en onzekerheid bestaat. Is dit in de praktijk eigenlijk wel mogelijk? Deze bijdrage beschrijft de (on)mogelijkheden waaronder het recht van erfdienstbaarheid, het recht van opstal en het recht van erfpacht door middel van louter inbezitneming kunnen worden verkregen.

The ‘fear of crime’ is a buzzword among citizens, media, politicians and professionals by now. But the phenomenon seems to be as intangible as it is important. The struggle of professionals with this concept is the result of a too wide and self-evident problem definition. This article contains an alternative approach. The focus is on disturbed fear of crime: a negatively changed and problematically experienced fear of crime on the level of the neighborhood.
Through a review of the literature and previous research, we work towards this concept and apply it to the neighborhood of Kerckebosch in the municipality of Zeist in the Netherlands. As during 2014 the local quantitative indicators for ‘the fear of crime’ rose from 7% of the local population indicating to ‘sometimes feel unsafe’ to 22%, while the rest of the municipality remained quite stable. Additionally, several local professionals received complaints of multiple local inhabitants claiming to ‘feel unsafe’ in the neighborhood. Our research question was: What explanations for their ‘disturbed fear of crime’ do local inhabitants of the neighborhood Kerckebosch give?
It was highly plausible that this local rise of the fear in Kerckebosch was connected to the social re-engineering of the neighborhood, but the exact nature of the quantitative rise was unclear. Therefore, we have interviewed 25 local inhabitants. Qualitative analyses showed the local rise of ‘the fear of crime’ to be the result of: (I) physical characteristics of the neighborhood; (II) events of burglary and intimidation from the past; (III) the presence of loitering youths and – primarily – (VI) a backlash of social integration as a side effect of the social re-engineering of the neighborhood. These qualitative explanations to the observed quantitative discontinuity led to several policy advises, which were based on international effect studies.

De regelingen van opzegging en ontbinding, zoals vormgegeven in de rechtspraak van de Hoge Raad en in de wet, blijven een mijnenveld. Het blijft continu een kwestie van goed manoeuvreren en tijdig klagen en in gebreke stellen. In zijn arrest Nanada/Golden Earring gaat de Hoge Raad nader in op de opzegbaarheid van overeenkomsten en de ontbinding. De auteur bespreekt dit arrest tegen de achtergrond van de opzegging en ontbinding van overeenkomsten.

We investigate a recent development in the practice of the civil courts: judges increasingly devote attention to the underlying conflict of parties instead of only to their legal dispute. In administrative law, this development has already been codified and termed ‘de Nieuwe zaaksbehandeling’, but not so in other areas of law.
Lawyers know that social conflicts are transformed into legally viable disputes so that the court can decide on them. For a long time, the most important task for lawyers was to resolve those legal disputes. Nowadays, that does not seem to be enough: judges should become problem solvers. Civil judges seem to blend in with these new requirements, but the question is whether the new approach really works. Based on our empirical material of 100 observed cases in civil law, we answer the following questions. 1. What do judges actually do in civil cases when they address underlying conflicts and try to steer parties toward a settlement? 2. What effects do these interventions of judges have on the outcome of cases? 3. How are these interventions perceived by the parties in terms of procedural justice?

Op 12 april 2017 heeft minister Kamp een wetsvoorstel voor de wettelijke verankering van de franchisecode in internetconsultatie gebracht. De schrijvers bespreken dit wetsvoorstel kritisch en menen dat het wetsvoorstel inhoudelijk de toets der kritiek niet kan doorstaan. De wetgever wordt opgeroepen een meer doordacht wetsvoorstel te concipiëren.

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In dit artikel staat de handhaving van het vreemdelingenrecht op basis van de Landsverordening toelating en uitzetting (Ltu), het Toelatingsbesluit (Tb) en de beleidsregels ter uitvoering van deze regelgeving centraal. Ook wordt aandacht geschonken aan de Landsverordening arbeid vreemdelingen (Lav), de Landsverordening identificatieplicht (Lvi), de Landsverordening basisverzekering ziektekosten (Lbz) en de Vestigingsregeling voor bedrijven, die ook aanknopingspunten bieden voor de handhaving van het vreemdelingenrecht.

Exodus is an organization aimed at assisting prisoners at their transition to society. In the Exodus halfway houses participants receive help in finding a house and a job, in improving relationships with family and friends and in giving meaning to life. This study uses a quasi-experimental design to investigate whether participating in the Exodus program reduces reoffending: the observed reoffending rate is compared to the reoffending rate that was predicted based on characteristics of the participants. The findings show that two years after leaving Exodus, 46.5% of the participants reoffended. This is 4.1 percent point less than the total population of former prisoners and 4.6 percent point less than the predicted reoffending rate.