Case number and/or case name
LG Berlin, 30. 4. 2013 – 15 O 92/12
Details of the court
Germany, First Instance
Articles referred to by the court
Rome I
Article 6
Paragraph 1
SubParagraph b
Date of the judgement
29 April 2013
CJEU's case law cited by the court
Summary
The plaintiff is a consumer organization, the defendant is an Irish company. The plaintiff wanted to prohibit the use of some clauses of the defendant’s standard terms. The court applied German law to the question of validity of the standard terms in contracts with German consumers according to Art. 6 Rome I, because the standard terms do not contain a choice-of-law clause.