Afik News 417 10.07.2024

A woman contended that she suffered damage because she was prevented from receiving an apartment that her grandmother bequeathed to her, due to the fact that the apartment was sold using a notarized power of attorney signed by the grandmother while still alive and demanded compensation from the notary public who authenticated the power of […]

A conflict arose between two companies that entered into a contractual relationship. The first agreements executed between the parties included an arbitration clause outside of Israel, but a later agreement stated that Israeli law applies to the agreement, and that the parties agreed to be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the competent Courts in […]

Shareholders of a company entered into an agreement under which one sold his holdings to the other due to the financially unstable state of the company, with the contract stating that it embodies all the agreements between the parties. Despite this, the seller contended that before the conclusion of the contract, another oral agreement was […]

The Israeli Electric Company (IEC) announced that it intends to enter without a tender into a contract with a supplier for the management and operation of a call center, inter alia, due to the expected increase in calls to its hotline. The Court accepted the petition and held that an IEC is obligated to publish […]

An article on agreements between customers in Israel and companies which provide goods and services in Israel but compel those customers to agree to foreign law in and jurisdiction of distance countries with regard to these agreements.

Goods worth over one million euros were ordered from a company, but the company did not deliver the goods and did not refund the customer. The shareholder and his spouse, who was the actual “living spirit” behing the company, were demanded to repay the funds personally although the shareholder contended that he is recorded as […]

A guarantor for a bank loan sought to cancel the guarantees signed by her for the loan granted to her son due to the fact that she does not speak Hebrew at the level required to understand the language of the guarantee and her signature is in the context of “Non Est Factum.” The Court […]

For a long period of time, parties negotiated for the provision of services, but this did not result in a binding contract. At the same time as the negotiations took place, some of the services there were to be included in the contract were provided. The Court held that the service provider is entitled to […]