When placing an order online, the order button must clearly indicate that by clicking on it the consumer is assuming an obligation to pay, even if the obligation to pay is linked to the subsequent fulfilment of a condition, ruled the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in a judgment handed down on Thursday 30 May (Case C-400/22).
In Germany, the tenant of a flat asked a debt collection company to recover rent overpayments made to his landlords. Before clicking on the button for...