Saturday, 28 September 2019

Underused consumer ADR and ODR platforms - Commission's report

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Some of our readers may be interested in the report that the European Commission has published this week assessing the functioning of the...
Friday, 27 September 2019

Consumer law & the Kardashians

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The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) recently banned three beauty advertisements, since the ads in question misled consumers and ...
Tuesday, 24 September 2019

No one-size-fits-all approach to search engine de-referencing - CJEU in Google

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Earlier this year we reported on the two opinions of Advocate General Szpunar concerning several aspects of the right to be forgotten: 1) ...
Monday, 23 September 2019

Thomas Cook's liquidation puts package travel rules to a test

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Earlier today Thomas Cook, one of the world's oldest package tour organizers, entered compulsory liquidation , affecting about 600,000 ...
Friday, 20 September 2019

CJEU in Lovasne Toth: 0-0 for AG Hogan and consumer protection

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Dear readers, yesterday the Court of Justice (third chamber) published its decision in Lovasné Toth , a Hungarian case concerning the pot...
Wednesday, 18 September 2019

A call to improve enforcement of consumer law: BEUC Dieselgate report

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The European Consumer Organisation BEUC has just published an interesting report summarizing the enforcement and policy-related actions in...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019

AG opinion in VKI v TVP Treuhand (C 272/18) - a test case for the Amazon judgment

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Last week, a seemingly very technical opinion has been delivered in a case concerning the transparency of a choice-of-law clause included...

CJEU in Romano v DSL (C-143/18): sorry BGB, you can't sail around EU law implementation

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Today, the CJEU published its decision in a case we had reported on a few months ago, Romano v DSL . In this case, two consumers had take...

CJEU judgment in Salvoni: no extra consumer protection in cross-border enforcement

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In May we reported on this blog on AG Bobek's Opinion in C-347/18 Salvoni v Fiermonte . The referring Italian court that was requested ...

Banks prevented from manipulating reimbursements following early credit repayment - CJEU in Lexitor (C-383/18)

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Today the CJEU issued a judgment in the case Lexitor (C-383/18). As we have presented the facts of this case before, we refer the readers t...