ECJ Rulings

The Court examined the meaning of 'offence' under the speciality rule in the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which limits UK prosecution to offences for which a person was surrendered from Ireland. The Court of Justice delivered...
Deutsche Lufthansa challenges the judgment that annulled the Commission's no-objection decision on Germany's COVID recapitalisation. The appeal raises six grounds including eligibility criteria, remuneration benchmarks, and the scope of judicial review in state aid cases. The Court...

Banks Cannot Charge Interest on Loan Amounts Client Never Receives – ECJ

The Court of Justice holds that the consumer credit directive prevents banks from calculating interest on the portion of a loan earmarked for paying...

Italy May Not Notify Victims in Case Appeals Against In Absentia Convicts

In an urgent preliminary ruling, the Court of Justice holds that victim rights directives do not extend to Italy's extraordinary in absentia review mechanism...

EU’s Highest Court Condemns Hungary’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Law Invoking EU Founding Values

In a landmark judgment, the Court of Justice sitting in its most solemn formation finds Hungary violated human dignity, freedom of expression, and Article...

ECJ Rules Tobacco Manufacturers Cannot Escape Emission Standards When Access Is Available

A Dutch anti-smoking foundation loses its bid to use an alternative cigarette measurement method after the Grand Chamber finds that parties with actual access...

Spain’s Temporary Worker Abuse Just Ruled Illegal by ECJ

The Grand Chamber has ruled that converting abusive fixed-term contracts into "non-permanent indefinite" relationships, Spain's go-to judicial remedy, does not actually fix anything, and...

“Pastiche” Defined by ECJ after 20-Year Court Battle

The Grand Chamber has used the decades-long Kraftwerk sampling dispute to draw the boundaries of the pastiche exception, setting out the limits on what...

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