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OGH Reviews Lakeside Property Purchase Below Market Value

The Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter OGH) had to consider the question of the conditions under which a property sale may be set aside as a usurious transaction under Section 879(2)(4) of the Austrian Civil Code (Allgemeines b...

ECJ: Flight Delays Attributed to Passenger Boarding Procedures

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) examined whether an airline may invoke extraordinary circumstances pertaining to a previous flight as the cause of a delay, notwithstanding its independent decision to wait for passengers from that earlier flight. ...

OGH on Service Charges and Mall GT&Cs

The Austrian Supreme Court (Oberster Gerichtshof, hereinafter referred to as OGH) was required to adjudicate matters concerning tenancy and contract law associated with a shopping centre. The dispute centred on claims for the settlement of accounts r...

ECJ Clarifies Bird Protection in Road Construction

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has specified the requirements that a road project must satisfy to guarantee comprehensive protection of avian species. Multiple environmental organisations formally contested the authorisation of a two-lane road p...

GER: Setback for Digitalisation –BGH Overturns Austrian Online Certification

The constraints associated with the digitalisation of notarial procedures across Europe remain evident. In its recent decision, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, hereinafter BGH) has recently decided that foreign online certific...

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