Posts by Doron Afik

An employer who is aware of an employee’s breach of confidentiality towards it previous employer may be liable to such previous employer

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An employee transitioned from one business to another contacting former clients and utilizing confidential business information obtained during his previous role. The new employer was aware of the confidentiality obligations the employee had undertaken toward his former employer and encouraged his move…

As of the date of receipt of an order to stay proceedings in a company employees are deemed terminated and rehired by a new employer

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An employee who worked for a company that underwent economic rehabilitation pursuant to an issuance of a stay of proceedings order, was terminated several years later and demanded severance pay for the entire duration of his employment with the company, including before…

In a trust the beneficiary cannot be the trustee unless the trust deed specifically enables

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Settlors of a trust drew up a deed of trust which stipulated that following their demise their house would be transferred to a public trust with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as beneficiary and all in accordance with the trust deed. The…

Reverse piercing of the corporate veil is not limited to a closed list of grounds and may be activated where it is right to do so

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  The Center for the Collection of Fines learnt that a criminal, from whom attempts to collect compensation for the victims and the State failed, is the sole shareholder and director of a company in which favor compensation was awarded by the…

Being a Common-Law Marriage couple does not in itself make every debt a joint debt

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Several years after their separation, a spouse demanded that his ex-spouse repay half of the amount of the loans he had taken to finance joint debts. The Court dismissed the claim because the common property presumption does not apply in this case.…

LEGAL UPDATES A claim will be stricken-off if a foreign claimant deposited a guarantee for the expenses of the defendant and failed to complete it after use

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An American claimant and a company from the Marshall Islands sued in an Israeli Court and were required to deposit a guarantee for the defendant’s expenses, but after part of the guarantee was used to pay expenses, they did not complete it…

When an officeholder is negligent in presenting forecasts to investors he may be held personally liable toward them

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Several investors invested in a company based on the optimistic projections of the 100% shareholder of the company, who also served as the director and CEO, regarding the project’s success and the security of their funds. Eventually, the company collapsed and the…

A petition against a tender filed with delay due to correspondence and an attempt to exhaust proceedings may be rejected

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A bidder received notice of non-winning of the tender and only after nearly two months in which it conducted correspondence with the municipality did it moved the Court seeking to cancel the tender. The Court rejected the petition due to delay and…

I Promised to try, But I Didn’t Promise to Succeed …

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A business owner entered into an agreement with a consultant to receive advertising and internet marketing services for his business, who promised him that marketing the business on social media would increase the number of customers.  Although the consultant presented himself as…

The Marker – Adi Keizman appeals to the Supreme Court the ruling that obligated him to pay ILS 11 million to Rani Rahav

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The Marker – Adi Keizman appeals to the Supreme Court the ruling that obligated him to pay ILS 11 million to Rani Rahav Rahav claimed in the lawsuit he filed against Keizman that Baruch Ivcher assigned him the rights to realize a…