Miscellaneous Articles
1: Sole Proprietorships Are Ok
Corporate strength comes from the number of their people times the quality of their people, times its financial strength.
2: UPL
When there is no case law specifically addressing a particular issue, you do not want to be the cause for any new case law.
3: Toll Free Numbers For Your Legal Business
Long ago, in the days of monopoly pricing for long-distance calls, a toll-free number was almost mandatory for a business with nationwide customers.
4: Is the Haifa port responsible for damage discovered on a cargo of sesame?
Recently, the Magistrate court of Tel Aviv rejected an importer’s claim against the Port of Haifa for being liable for dampness, which caused damages to a sesame cargo which was stored in a container at the port.
5: 7. Who is responsible for damages to a fish shipment due to the disconnection of the cooling systems?
Recently, a verdict was handed down by the Magistrate Court of Haifa on a claim of a frozen fish importer, whose goods were damaged due to the disconnection of the electricity from one of the containers at the Haifa port.
6: The Supreme Court- the Custom’s Authority was not negligent in its classification of cellphone batteries
These days a verdict in the Supreme Court was handed down on an appeal of an importer against the Customs Authority.
7: 5. Can a “short cut “ be made by handing over a Statement of Claim (against) an importer to his customs agent? Not always…
Recently, the District Court of Tel Aviv determined that not in all cases can a plaintiff send a Statement of Claim against an importer to his Customs agent.
8: A sentence was passed in the case of two people convicted in avoiding payment of import tax
Recently, a verdict was handed down by the Magistrate court of Ashdod, in which relatively light sentences were given to two defendants accused of avoiding import tax payments and committing other offences related to import.
9: 3. Jackie Line Company won 300,000 NIS for a debt of custom clearance commission and forwarding
Recently, the Magistrate court in Tel Aviv received a financial claim from Jackie Line – a forwarding and customs clearance company, against a client of the company, requesting compensation in the amount of 295,000 NIS.
10: The court – an international forwarder who claims an unpaid debt to him must bring witnesses familiar with the shipments’ details.
Recently, a claim of an international forwarder was rejected as the witnesses brought to testify were not familiar with the details of the dispute, and that many documents presented were in a foreign language without translation.
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