Dear readers, it is with genuine excitement (albeit with some delay) that I type out some thoughts in reaction to a very rich new decision by the CJEU, namely Caixabank and others of 4 July 2024 (C‑450/22). This case is, shockingly but not incredibly, yet another instalment in the floor clauses saga that we have so often written … Read more
Image by yousafbhutta from Pixabay On 26 September 2024, the Belgian Constitutional Court referred a highly topical issue of fair remuneration of authors and performers on online streaming platforms to the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). The reference, which is poised to result in one of the most significant CJEU judgments in the … Read more
The immediate impact of the pandemic might be on the wane, but the legal battlefield continues. In HDI Global and MS Amlin Insurance (Joined Cases C-771/22 and C-45/23), the CJEU analysed the implications of insolvency on consumers’ right to a refund after validly cancelling a package trip under the Package Travel Directive (Directive (EU) 2015/2302). … Read more
Picture by Nikin from Pixabay In its jugment of 30 April 2024 (C-470/21), the Court docket of Justice of the European Union answered three questions referred by the French Administrative Supreme Court docket (‘Conseil d’Etat’), that may be summed up as follows: should Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58 on privateness and digital communications be interpreted … Read more