MH17 - ten years after July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 17, 2024 will mark 10 years since the relatives of flight MH17 received the worst imaginable news about their loved ones.
KRO-NCRV has produced a documentary series about the fate that befell the occupants of flight MH17 and their loved ones. This four-part series can be seen daily on NPO2 (https://kro-ncrv.nl/programmas/de-echo-van-mh17) starting Monday, July 15, 2024 at 10:05 pm.
Arlette Schijns is one of the interviewees. She acted in the criminal trial for the more than 160 clients, next of kin of more than 90 occupants of flight MH17 that Beer advocaten is authorized to assist.
Serious health damage from Janssen vaccine
Laura-Jean van de Ven advocates for a client who suffered serious health damage from a Janssen vaccination. An article in The FD exposes the problems of people like this client, who have been in solidarity with the public interest by getting vaccinated, and are now left with damage.
State settles with people who may have suffered narcolepsy after swine flu vaccination
Our firm is assisting children who suffered a severe sleeping sickness (narcolepsy) following vaccination with Pandemrix, a vaccine against swine flu. A settlement was recently reached with the State for some of these children. De Volkskrant reports.
Voorschoten train accident
Beer advocaten regrets the recent train accident in Voorschoten with dramatic consequences. We have assembled an expert team of lawyers who can assist victims with questions without obligation. Our firm has extensive experience in counseling victims after dramatic events, such as previously the streetcar attack in Utrecht, the MH17 plane crash and the attack on Amsterdam Central Station. For more information, please contact Laura-Jean van de Ven or Irene Timmermans.
Traffic law: interview Arlette Schijns criminal trial MH17
On Nov. 17, 2022, The Hague District Court handed down its verdict in the MH17 criminal trial.
Read the interview in ANWB Traffic Law here, in which Arlette Schijns, together with Antoinette Collignon, Peter Langstraat and Evert Wytema, looks back on the past years and they take a look ahead.
Verdict of criminal trial MH17
On Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, in front of a very large number of relatives and other attendees, the District Court of The Hague handed down its verdict in the MH17 criminal trial after an extensive and intensive criminal trial. All sessions could be followed live and watched back at: www.courtmh17.com. The summary recited by the presiding judge and the full verdicts can be accessed through the following links:
Supreme Court issues ruling on Probo Koala poisoning disaster
In a ruling on February 11, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that Trafigura's complaints against the Amsterdam Court of Appeal's ruling of April 14, 2020 are unfounded. This so-called 81 RO decision means that the substantive hearing of the victims' claim can continue. The court will thus be able to rule [...]
Criminal trial of MH17 resumes
This September, next of kin exercised their right to speak. While exercising this, next of kin were not only allowed to comment on the impact of the downing of MH17, but could also express their views on the crime, the question of guilt and the punishment of the suspects. From November 1, 2021, the hearing of the [...]
Arlette Schijns speaking on NPO Radio 1 about speaking rights for next of kin MH17
This item can be heard back in the last 20 minutes of the Sept. 4 broadcast.
Relatives of MH17 exercised their right to speak
Sessions on the MH17 criminal trial resumed in September 2021. All sessions could be followed live and watched back at: https://www.courtmh17.com/zittingsdagen-2021.html. For three weeks, a total of 91 relatives testified about the impact of the air disaster on their lives. Arlette Schijns, Laura Kroese and Irene Timmermans, who are part of Beer advocaten's aviation team, assisted the bereaved families in this for [...]