We’ve all been through the drill. The excitement of buying a new home — or a new car, or any number of new things — is tempered by the heap of paper stacked before you when you go to finalize the ...

January 2011 This case, in which Al Tamimi successfully represented the Defendant at all stages of the proceedings, is significant because the Court of Cassation established a new legal precedent with ...

Contracts of adhesion have nothing to do with mastic, glue or paste. Instead, they are something that contractors, particularly those who engage in contracting with public entities, should know about.

Takeaway: Adhesion contracts are ubiquitous in modern internet commerce, and the rules of contract formation are generally the same for paper and on-line contracts. Parties are generally bound by ...

Kentaro Furuya is a guest author who practices in General Corporate, Litigation from Matsuo & Kosugi, a law firm based in Tokyo, Japan. Anyone forming contracts with Japanese businesses or consumers ...

These “take it or leave it” mandatory arbitration agreements fit the classic hornbook definition of an unlawful contract of adhesion. Given the present climate, we regret not much can be done except ...