Posted on: December 8, 2014 by Mathilde Roellinger
The French Constitutional Council, in a decision rendered on 14 November 2014, declared that article 2 of the law of 23 June 1941 concerning the export of works of art did not comply with the Constitution. The application for a priority preliminary ruling was submitted by an owner of precious furniture who, in the 1980s, […]
Posted on: July 15, 2014 by Ruth Redmond-Cooper
The next intake for the Diploma in Art Profession Law and Ethics (DipAPLE) Course will be in September 2014. The course will consist of seven day-long seminars running on Saturdays from 6th September 2014 to 7th March 2015. The DipAPLE Course is designed as an introduction to the specific legal risks and safeguards that underpin […]
Posted on: April 14, 2014 by Alexander Herman
It was recently revealed that a final settlement had been reached in the decade-long Beaverbrook art saga. The dispute involved over 200 works that had once belonged to Max Aitken, aka Lord Beaverbrook, the Canadian-born London-based newspaper magnate. Before he died in 1964, Beaverbrook had founded an art gallery in his home province of New […]