Wednesday, 26 June 2024

Online safety and "vulnerable" consumers: the new OFCOM's draft codes of practice

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The English Office of Communications ( OFCOM ) has recently released its new draft "Children's safety online" codes of practic...
Wednesday, 5 June 2024

Transparency about online payments even if they are conditional - CJEU in Conny (C-400/22)

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Last week, on May 30, the CJEU gave its judgment in the Conny case ( C-400/22 ) elaborating on the requirement from Article 8 of the Consume...
Friday, 31 May 2024

Delays in luggage loading a possible extraordinary circumstance - CJEU in Touristic Aviation Services (C-405/23)

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On May 16, the CJEU issued a new judgment on air passenger rights when there is a long flight delay and an airline claims extraordinary circ...
Friday, 24 May 2024

New action by BEUC: Tamig Temu

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We all like a good deal! However, those of us who know (a bit more) about consumer rights and consumer law are aware that cheap goods and se...
Tuesday, 14 May 2024

Blog team changes

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Dear Readers, we wanted to update you on a few changes that have taken place in our merry blog team. After a few years of productive collabo...
Friday, 10 May 2024

Reversed burden of proof under strict conditions to exercise early repayment rights of consumer credit- the CJEU in C-326/22

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Case  C-326/22 Z    arose regarding   Article 16(1) of Directive 2008/48/EC   on consumer credit and the right to early loan repayment, whic...
Thursday, 9 May 2024

Financial services concluded at a distance in digital age - the new Directive 2023/2673

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In 2023, European lawmakers were busy improving the protection of consumers in financial services. In addition to the new Directive 2023/222...
Friday, 3 May 2024

Validity of limitation periods for claiming mortgage costs back from banks - CJEU in Caixabank (C-484/21) and Banco Santander (C-561/21)

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While many consumer lawyers are currently busy analysing the details of the opinion of AG Emiliou in Compass Banca  case ( C-646/22 ) (and w...
Thursday, 18 April 2024

Unintentionally becoming an apparent producer - AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona's opinion in Ford Italia (C-157/23)

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Photo by Benjamin Scheidl on Unsplash AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona elaborated today on the notion of a producer under the Product Liability Di...
Thursday, 11 April 2024

May airlines use T&Cs to prohibit passengers from assigning their rights to claim damages? - CJEU in Air Europa Lineas Aéreas (C-173/23)

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In today's Air Europa Lineas Aéreas  judgment ( C-173/23 ) the CJEU looked into the application of the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (...