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Of browsers and britishness!
Hello readers! The case I am blogging on is indeed curious. It concerns that mogul household brand we all know and love, Microsoft! As a europhile Brit I am the first to assert that certain things are considered the staples of British life- tea, The...
Polish builders and freedom to provide services: Commission v Germany 546/07
When two worlds collide… ? German insistence on monitoring the application of its temporary restrictions of Polish building contractors ‘collided’ with the ECJ’s insistence on monitoring freedom to provide services throughout...
Vasiliki Stylianou Vandorou- new reference to ECJ
Greetings! (more conventional- unfortunately I cannot say ‘hello’ in Greek). I thought that it would be fun this week to write a note on mutual recognition of professional qualifications (if this is not edge of seat material I don’t...
Kucukdeveci – ECJ and age discrimination – expanding direct effect of directives to horizontal relations
Let me first quote the brilliant ‘Adjudicating Europe’ blog: “The Court can be criticized (and it should very well be), but nobody can accuse it of being an irrelevant institution in the construction of a European Union. Read in tha...
Transportes Urbanos- new case on state liability
Ola! Here it is- Transportes Urbanos! As we all know (or those of us sad enough to call ourselves lawyers should know!) the principle of state liability arose in Mama Mia!- not the film- but Francovich & Bonifaci v Italian state. The case concern...
Two new ECJ judgements – Transportes Urbanos and Kucukdeveci
Happy Monday! Within the past few weeks, the ECJ made two interesting judgements: Transportes Urbanos concerned state liability – Spanish rules which resticted access to damages for state liability were under scrutiny. Kucukdeveci – disc...
Some news from ECJ
On 7 October Vassilios Skouris was re-elected as President of the ECJ until October 2012. On the same day, the Judges of the Court elected the Presidents of all the eight Chambers of the Court. On 9 October Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi was appoi...
Welcome, EU law students!
Hello, I have just become a Lecturer in EU law at the University of Westminster. So I added another page to this blog which includes some materials which I will be using. All those who are interested in getting access to these – just click on E...
Consumer’s right to withdraw and compensation for use – Pia Messner
Now we have the ECJ judgement in the case concerning the right to withdraw from contracts concluded at a distance. Directive 97/7 on the protection of consumers in respect of distance contracts (Distance Sales Directive) introduces the right to withd...
ECJ and legal expenses insurance – Eschig v UNIQA
In a recent judgement (10 Sep 2009)(Case C-199/08) the ECJ took stance on a key issue concerning legal expenses insurance: who choses a lawyer- the insurer or the insured? Mr Eschig had a legal expenses insurance with UNIQA, which he wanted to invok...
Sport and EU Competition Law – MOTOE case
In July 2008 the ECJ dealt with sport and its place within the EU legal system. The ECJ’s judgement in Case C-49/07 (Motosyklesistiki Omospondia Ellados NPID (MOTOE) v Elliniko Dimosio) followed its earlier judgements in Bosman and Mecca-Medina...
New President of the European Parliament hears the Old Comission President Barroso’s Guidelines
Having been off-line for a while, I did not have the opportunity to officially celebrate the choice of the New President of the European Parliament – Professor Jerzy Buzek. Good choice in my objective (Polish too) opinion. Professor Buzek has j...
Welcome back!
ECJWatch disappeared for a while, but I am now back online and will be posting regularly – my September resolution. Stay tuned!
Roda Golf – March update on ECJ’s work
The ECJ has certainly been busy in March – judgements and opinions involved civil justice, competition law, age discrimination, taxes, etc… Here is an opinion I found interesting: In Roda Golf & Beach Resort SL (C-14/08) the Advoca...
EC Consumer Law Compendium
Continuing the theme, another book: this time it is the long-awaited Consumer Law Compendium, which contains analyses of how 8 EC consumer law directives (those subject to consumer acquis review: like distance and doorstep sales, consumer sales, pric...
Globalization of class actions – American Academy publication
As the blog is gradually becoming a medium for self-promotion information about useful publications, here is another publication: this time one I co-edited with two brilliant legal academics: Professor Hensler or Stanford, and Dr Hodges of Oxford: &...
Product Liability Law in Transition – book out!
My book: ‘Product Liability Law in Transition: A Central European Perspective’ is finally out! It shows how one, very specific, area of law has been transformed in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic with the transition from socialism...
Class actions in the EU, and European Sale of Goods – new books
Two new titles have been published in the Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law series: The Reform of Class and Representative Actions in European Legal Systems: A New Framework for Collective Redress in Europe by Dr Christo...
New EU blogging portal
For all you EU bloggers and blog-readers – here is something really exciting. A new EU blogging portal has recently been launched, bringing together the content of blogs which are devoted to EU affairs. There are 281 blogs for now.
