On Thursday 17 May (case C-147/16), the Court of Justice of the EU ruled that the directive on unfair terms in consumer contracts may apply to an educational establishment.
The national court is required to assess of its own motion whether the terms in a contract concluded between an educational establishment and a student are unfair, the European Court ruled.
In the principal case, a higher education establishment went to the Magistrates’ Court of Antwerp (Belgium) to recover from a...