Articles - Civil law
In this page you can review articles published by our office on issues concerning civil law. We will update this page and add more articles every once in a while. For further information on issues regarding civil law you are welcome to visit our submitted claims and suits page on civil law and promissory notes.
Please be aware that while we did translate the reviews, the actual articles are not yet translated (exept those we msntion). We will do our best to translate all the articles as soon as possible.
Global Debt collection in Israel (Translated to English)
During this article I will discuss the debt collection possibilities in every corner of the world, excluding only countries like Somalia, Zimbabwe and other countries in the third world. The GCS Corporation, of which our office is the Israeli partner, specializes, among other things, in debt collection around the world and employs over 3,000 staff in more than 85 countries around the world. Among GCS clients are governments, banks, insurance companies and leading global corporations
For more information about this subject you are welcome to visit our "Globel Debt Collection" section.
Cancellation of verdict given with only one side present
The Israeli civil regulations act of 1984 requires a respondent to serve his defense to a civil law suit within 30 days after the suit has been served to him. (45 days in a swift legal procedure and 15 days in penny suits). After those periods, and if the respondent did not file his defense, the plaintiff could ask the court to give verdict. After this stage the is allowed to ask the court to cancel his one sided verdict. This article will discuss (in a nutshell) the court considerations when this pleads are presented by the respondent.
Opposing the execution of promissory notes
In this article we will review some of the arguments which a respondent can argue when Opposing the execution of promissory notes (most of the time we mean checks). This means that the respondent is claiming that he should not pay the check for one or more arguments like: Failure of recompense, theft of the check, absence of signature, check given only for safekeeping and so forth.
In this article we will discuss the ways to the cancel a contract, focusing on the grounds for cancellation due to flaw in the signing of the agreement mentioned in part B of the Israeli contract act (general part) 1973. We will discuss false contract, errors in the contract, deception, compulsion, exploitation and partial cancellation. we will also discuss the legal ways to cancel a contract and many other issues regarding the Israeli contract law.
Defenses that stand at the side of guarantor, in the Israeli law (Part 1)
Defenses that stand at the side of guarantor, in the Israeli law (Part 2)
The Israeli Law of the guarantee, 1967 is the normative frame in which a guarantor could find defense when he is demanded to pay the primary borrower debt. The discussion mostly revolves around the relationship between the bank and the guarantor although a large part of the discussion could also be implemented on the relationships between guarantors and other creditors.
