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Google Android: unpacking the ECJ Judgment

2026-09-25T15:59:36+00:0025 September 2026|Categories: Case reports, Competition, EU Law|Tags: , , , |

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has delivered its long-awaited judgment in the Google Android case. The judgment upholds the General Court's 2022 ruling, which had largely confirmed the European Commission's 2018 decision against Google for abusing its multiple dominant positions in relation to the Android mobile operating system. The Read More

Inspection by a competition authority and seizure of business emails

2026-09-25T16:03:12+00:0016 July 2026|Categories: Case reports, Competition, EU Law|Tags: , , , |

As part of an investigation into anticompetitive practices, the Portuguese competition authority seized, from the premises of the undertakings under investigation, emails exchanged between the employees of those undertakings. The undertakings contested the seizure of emails, arguing that it should have been authorised by an investigating judge rather than by Read More

An insurance contract must set out transparently, in plain, intelligible language, the functioning of the insurance arrangements

2015-04-23T21:00:46+00:0023 April 2015|Categories: Case reports, Regulatory and Compliance|Tags: |

The Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive (see Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer contracts) provides that consumers are not bound by unfair clauses that are set out in a contract concluded with a seller or supplier. However, according to that directive, the assessment Read More

Court of Milan: misrepresentations under the proposal form on the security measures in place at inception entail a gross negligence

2015-04-20T21:00:49+00:0020 April 2015|Categories: Case reports|Tags: , , , |

The Court of Milan, in its Judgement n. 4959/2015, published on 20 April 2015, R.G. n. 46086/2010, ruled that the misrepresentations of the assured on the security measures in place at inception of the policy, as represented under the proposal form, entail a gross negligence of the jeweller pursuant to art. 1892 of Read More

The rule of unisex premiums and benefits will apply with effect from 21 December 2012

2011-03-11T21:00:24+00:0011 March 2011|Categories: Case reports, Legislative Updates|Tags: |

Directive 2004/113/EC prohibits all discrimination based on sex in the access to and supply of goods and services. Thus, in principle, the Directive prohibits the use of gender as a factor in the calculation of insurance premiums and benefits in relation to insurance contracts entered into after 21 December 2007. By Read More

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