- Author
- Year
- 2019
- Title
- The Real (New) Deal: Levelling the Odds for Consumer-Litigants
- Subtitle
- On the Need for a Modernization, Part II
- Journal
- European Review of Private Law
- Volume | Issue number
- 27 | 6
- Pages (from-to)
- 1227-1249
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
-
Faculty of Law (FdR)
Interfacultary Research - Institute
- Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
- Abstract
-
With its New Deal proposals, the European Commission aimed to secure that
all consumers ‘fully benefit from their rights under Union law’. We argue that such commitment requires taking a step back from an exclusive focus on enforcement, to tackle challenges to the justiciability of consumer rights. Consumers must be seen both in their role as claimants and when they act as defendants. By means of a case-study threading together the main developments in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union concerning procedural guarantees for consumers from the past year, we seek to highlight the shortcomings of the current reliance on ‘judicial harmonization’. The identified shortcomings, we claim, show that limited harmonization of civil procedure is required, with regard to establishing minimum protective standards in cases involving consumers. For interested readers, we also list a number of specific issues that we think such harmonization should engage with. - Link
- Final publisher version
- Language
- English
- Note
- © 2019 Kluwer Law International B.V., a Wolters Kluwer Company. All rights reserved.
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/964b24d3-052e-46c1-aa00-2453c9f60ae3
- Downloads
-
ERPL2019069(Final published version)
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