Saturday, 14 April 2018

No loophole for airlines- ECJ says an electronic complaint is a complaint in writing

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On 12 th April the ECJ judgement on the Finnair case was published on article 31 of the Montreal Convention, with the main question revol...
Thursday, 12 April 2018

AG Tanchev: Wild-cat strikes are extraordinary circumstances (joined cases Krüsemann)

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When a large number of British Airways flights were cancelled in 2017 due to strikes of the company's personnel, the competent UK reg...
Wednesday, 11 April 2018

Behavioural study on transparency of online platforms - let's try this again

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Aside the New Deal for consumers, parts of which we have already commented on (see POLITICO publishes draft Commission proposal on collecti...

Nihil novi from the CJEU in Uber France

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In a judgment delivered yesterday the Court of Justice once again looked at the legal environment of Uber’s business model. Similarly to i...

The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica fallout and user privacy

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Dear readers, this time we need to refer to slightly less usual sources to report on some rather interesting developments concerning theme...
Monday, 9 April 2018

POLITICO publishes draft Commission proposal on collective redress for European consumers

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POLITICO , a well-known news website on European affairs, reports that it has obtained a draft proposal of the European Commission for a n...
Monday, 2 April 2018

An end to high banking transfer charges in the EU?

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On 28 th March, the EU Commission put forward a Proposal for a Regulation that will reduce charges for bank transfers in the European Uni...
Friday, 23 March 2018

"Not sure if debt owns me or I own debt": assignment of consumer debts and default interest rates in Spain (Opinion of AG Wahl)

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Of all preliminary rulings on the Unfair Contract Terms Directive (93/13/EEC) in the EUR-Lex database, more than one-third concern questio...
Thursday, 22 March 2018

AG Opinion in Bankia: UCPD is not applicable in mortgage enforcement proceedings

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Introduction On the 20 th of March, AG Wahl published his opinion on the Bankia case. The case revolves around the app...