“In what appears to be a rather straightforward extension of the Court’s earlier decisions in Cases C-498/16 Schrems and C-208/18 Petruchová, the CJEU held last week in Case C-774/19 Personal Exchange that a natural person contracting with the operator of an online gambling service remains a consumer in the sense of Article 15 of Regulation 44/2001 (Brussels I; now Article 17 or Regulation 1215/2012 (Brussels Ia)) even if they use it for many hours a day and make their living from it …” (more)
[Tobias Lutzi, Conflict of Laws .net, 15 December]
First posted 2020-12-15 07:34:41
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