A judge before whom a consumer claims that certain contractual terms are unfair is required to verify on their own initiative other terms of the contract provided that they relate to the subject-matter of the dispute before them, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in a judgement delivered on Wednesday 11 March (Case C-511/17).
In 2007, Mrs Györgyné Lintner brought an action before the Hungarian courts seeking a declaration that certain terms in a mortgage loan...