Welcome
My name is Bob Wessels. I have been an independent legal counsel, advisor and arbitrator, with 45 years of business experience. For over 25 years I acted as a deputy justice in the Court of Appeal in The Hague. From 1988-2014 I was a law professor (civil law, commercial law, insolvency law) at the Vrije University in Amsterdam and the University of Leiden. This website illustrates a number of my past and present activities.
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Recent blog posts
- 2026-08-doc2 Do you know what an “interim proceeding” is?12 August 2026My focus today is on a small puzzle: interim proceedings. What are they? Do they have cross-border effect? And can we learn a bit more about them in the future? The EU Insolvency Regulation (EIR 2015) provides in Article 1(1) that the regulation ... Read More »
- 2026-08-doc1 Does the debtor have a say in determining the fee for an IP?5 August 2026In a Dutch insolvency case, an insolvency practitioner (IP), “curator” X, asked the District Court of The Hague to determine an advance on his fee. He also requested the amount of the bankruptcy costs. The invoice covered the period from 1 January ... Read More »