Those Member States can rely neither on their responsibilities concerning the maintenance of law and order and the safeguarding of internal security, nor on the alleged malfunctioning of the relocation mechanism to avoid implementing that mechanism. In the judgment in Commission v Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic (C-715/17, C-718/17 and C-719/17), delivered on 2 […]
Judgment of the ECJ on the imposition of compensation claims for flight delays
A passenger who reserved his or her flight through a travel agency may bring an action for compensation for a long flight delay against the air carrier before the courts of the place of departure of the flight By it judgment, the Court notes, first of all, that the concept of an operating air carrier […]
Judgment of the European Court of Justice on Unfair Contract Terms
A court before which a consumer claims that certain contractual terms are unfair is required to review, of its own motion, other terms of the contract insofar as they are connected to the subject matter of the dispute before it. It must, where necessary, take investigative measures in order to obtain the legal and factual […]
The General Court erred in law by not correctly assessing the incompatibility of the simultaneous performance of academic and representative functions by the same person
In the judgment in Uniwersytet Wrocławski and Poland v REA (Joined Cases C-515/17 P and C-561/17 P), delivered on 4 February 2020, the Court of Justice, sitting as the Grand Chamber, set aside the order of the General Court 1 which had dismissed as manifestly inadmissible the action brought by the University of Wrocław against […]