The Court of Justice of the European Union has clarified the conditions leading to an obligation to pay for a consumer who has concluded a contract at a distance electronically, in a judgment delivered on Thursday 7 April (Case C-249/21).
A German company, as owner of a hotel, demands, under its terms and conditions, that an individual pay a cancellation fee of €2,240, because that person did not show up on the first day of what the company considers to be a properly made reservation.
The...