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PRO BONO WORK

Every year Quinz provides hours of legal support by handling a maximal number of pro bono cases. Most of these are intended to contribute to the modernisation of our current law and therefore have a profound social significance.

BAEF

Quinz provides pro bono legal support on a regular basis to the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF). BAEF is a non-profit dedicated to fostering the advanced study or research of deserving Belgian and American university students, scientists and scholars through its exchange fellowship program. Quinz has been involved in setting up a new fund which will generate a steady stream of low-risk revenue to the BAEF.

RECODIFICATION OF THE LAW OF EVIDENCE

Quinz litigation partner Benoît Allemeersch has been appointed by the Belgian Minister of Justice, Koen Geens, as expert member of the commission charged with the drafting of a proposal for a thorough reform of the Belgian law of (civil) evidence. The commission was put in place by the Belgian Government with the particular aim of adapting the centuries-old law of evidence to the reality of modern society, including recent technological developments.
For instance, the existing legislation on this subject needed to be brought in line with the EU Regulation No 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market and repealing Directive 1999/93/EC. Benoît Allemeersch, who is partim professor of procedural and evidence law at the university of Leuven (Belgium), took part in the drafting of the new rules and appeared as the Government’s expert
at the parliamentary hearings. The proposed rules have now been incorporated in Book 8 of the new Belgian Civil Code, which replaced the then current Civil Code enacted in 1804, and came into force on 1 November 2020 (with a few exceptions).

SUSTAINABILITY COMMITMENT

Climate change is undeniable today. It is of great importance that we try to mitigate its negative effects. That is why
we, in our day-to-day activities, strive to a more sustainable environment. Quinz has implemented different
measures with the aim of reducing our environmental footprint. Quinz has, for example, invested in a wellfunctioning work environment, which significantly reduces our paper usage. Finally, it is at least as important for us
that our external providers apply the same standards