In the early years of kickboxing in the Netherlands, a number of fighters got involved in criminal activities. Literature typically focusses on social learning, but as the inner city of Amsterdam in the eighties provides a specific setting, this article particularly describes a historical process. In the qualitative data from interviews, observations, and various documents, three questions: Who were these kickboxers? Where did they enter the criminal circles? Why did they go along with what happened there? It turns out, successful fighters easily came in contact with people from the underground, as they met in the gyms and in the night life where many fighters worked as bouncers. In a friendly atmosphere, the risks of seduction were hard to recognize for inexperienced fighters.

This article scrutinizes the forces that are at play during the work of police officers in the Netherlands in order to unravel how they shape and give meaning to police officers’ workaday practice. By doing so, we contribute to scholarly debates in the fields of criminology and public administration and give a new impulse to the Dutch debate on policy culture. Using insights from the literatures on police culture, policing, police morality and police styles as theoretical background, an empirical study was conducted using fifteen focus groups with a total of 83 police officers working at street-level as main method of data collection. After analyzing the transcripts through an iterative coding process, four main forces that influence police officers’ workaday practice emerged from the data, partly confirming and partly expanding existing research: 1) environment and public; 2) group culture; 3) organization and its supervisors; and 4) personal factors. However, by acquiring a deeper understanding of these forces in relation to each other and to their workaday practice, police officers’ ‘moral resilience’ will increase: it will help them to act well-considered, strengthening their ability to explain the logic of their actions.

Deze bijdrage gaat over de verschillen tussen de enquêteprocedure als verzoekschriftprocedure en het kort geding als dagvaardingsprocedure. In beide procedures kunnen voorlopige ordemaatregelen worden verkregen, maar er bestaan belangrijke verschillen. Gedacht kan worden aan bijvoorbeeld het belang dat in de procedure centraal staat alsmede de rol die belanghebbenden spelen.

Managing commercial conflicts requires reflexivity: the description of the conflict influences the manner in which the conflict is handled, and changing this description may influence this approach and the desirable outcome. The Belgian law firm contrast was curious to find out more of different parameters influencing the manner in which a conflict is handled. It developed an in-dept questionnaire and submitted it to 40 participants. The findings of this research are commented.

In 2011 it was revealed that the Dutch social-psychologist Diederik Stapel from Tilburg University faked his experiments and fabricated findings.Many of his PhD-students relied upon his statistical data and, as a result, their dissertations and publications have been qualified as fraudulent. Here I wilI focus mainly on gaining access to the PhD-students. I show that trust and distrust played an essential part in the communication with these respondents. Some of them state that the framing of Stapel as the evil mastermind is not coherent with their experience. They also define him as an enthusiastic and brilliant supervisor who was interested in their work.

In deze bijdrage bespreekt de auteur een aantal gevolgen van een benoeming van een bestuurder of commissaris in strijd met de door de Wet bestuur en toezicht geïntroduceerde limitering van het aantal functies van bestuurders en commissarissen.

In deze bijdrage gaat de auteur in op het wetsvoorstel tot wijziging van Boek 2 van het Burgerlijk Wetboek ter verduidelijking van de artikelen 297a en 297b (32 873). Dit is een reparatiewet op het wetsvoorstel tot aanpassing van regels over bestuur en toezicht in naamloze en besloten vennootschappen (31 763). Het betreft een aanpassing van de artikelen 2:297a en 2:297b BW met betrekking tot de limitering van het aantal bestuursfuncties en commissariaten bij grote besloten vennootschappen met beperkte aansprakelijkheid, naamloze vennootschappen en stichtingen.

In dit arrest ging het om de vraag of Van Kessel nog voldoende belang had bij het instellen van een vordering, nu pas in een laat stadium van de procedure was gebleken dat de aansprakelijkheidsverzekeraar van Van Kessel (Allianz) de schade al had vergoed. Kan Van Kessel op eigen naam ten behoeve van Allianz, die in de rechten van Van Kessel was gesubrogeerd, de procedure tegenover Nationale-Nederlanden voortzetten?

In deze bijdrage wordt ingegaan op het wetsvoorstel (31 948) tot afschaffing van het preventieve toezicht op kapitaalvennootschappen en het instellen van een permanent toezicht op rechtspersonen.