The Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled on Thursday, 12 January, that a clause in a contract for the provision of legal services that sets the cost on the basis of an hourly rate, without including any other details, does not satisfy the requirement of being drafted in plain, intelligible language, which is included in European Union law.
The court’s judgment arises from a question raised by the Supreme Court of Lithuania in the context of a dispute between a consumer and a lawyer...