Monday, 29 November 2010

Behavioural Economics discussed by European Commission

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Just a quick note to let you readers know that video clips and presentations of the conference in Brussels (Behavioural Economics, so What: ...
Thursday, 18 November 2010

When comparative advertising is not misleading to consumers: ECJ case C-159/09 Lidl v Vierzon

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18 November 2010: ECJ case C-159/09 Lidl v Vierzon Dear reader, if you had previously on this blog read my summary of the Advocate General...
Thursday, 11 November 2010

Transparent and comparable bank fees

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Making banking fees more transparent and comparable for consumers. That's the way forward according to the European Commission when it c...
Tuesday, 9 November 2010

National courts need to do some legwork: ECJ case C-137/08 Pénzügyi Lízing

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9 November 2010: ECJ case C-137/08 Pénzügyi Lízing ECJ decided today also on a reference concerning assessment by the national court of its...

Can we add a bonus to the goods we have for sale so as to attract more consumers? ECJ case C-540/08 Mediaprint

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9 November 2010: ECJ case C-540/08 Mediaprint This judgment concerned interpretation of the Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial pract...
Sunday, 7 November 2010

Consumers and the big bad wolf (aka internet)

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European Comission has recently been paying more and more attention to the fact that online contract law is not sufficiently regulated (that...
Thursday, 4 November 2010

Conference: The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonisation

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On 21 January 2011 the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law and the Amsterdam Circle for Law & Language (ACLL) organise an in...
Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Towards an optional instrument?

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Last Wednesday, 27 October, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament organised an inter-parliamentary meeting on the ide...
Thursday, 28 October 2010

Sheena Iyengar on the art of choosing

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Consumer should be free to make his own choices. Consumer should be well informed so that he can make the right choices. Consumer has too ma...
Tuesday, 26 October 2010

EU collective redress regulation needed? Undoubtedly so.

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Joaquín Almunia (Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy) gave a speech in Brussels on 21 October 2010...