Hands On, Eyes Closed? CJEU Grand Chamber hearing on Frontexโ€™s role in unlawful pushbacks (WS and Others v Frontex, C-679/23 P)

 Jan-Hendrik Seelow, Dutch
Council for Refugees*

*The Dutch Council for Refugees has
closely worked with the applicantโ€™s counsel to support the case from the
beginning Photo credit: Francesco Placco, via Wikimedia Commons

Introduction

It is a f…

EU court upholds โ‚ฌ320M fine against Poland for violating rule of law

Fine related to controversial Polish judicial reforms by previously ruling PiS party.

Bringing a claim of compensation for harm suffered as a result of alleged psychological harassment by the Head of Mission and his Deputy before the EU Courts: Montanari v Eucap Sahel Niger (Case T-371/22)

  

 

Antje Kunst*

* Antje Kunst is an
international lawyer and barrister of a UK based Chambers, specialised in EU
and international public law, human rights and litigation. She is admitted to
the Bar of England and Wales, and th…

Only one bite at the cherry: Appealing a default judgment of the General Court to the Court of Justice, and simultaneously asking the General Court under the specific remedy to set aside its own default judgment is not permitted: Eulex Kosovo v SC (Case C-785/22 P)

 

 

Antje Kunst*

* Antje Kunst is an
international lawyer and barrister of Pavocat Chambers, admitted to the Bar of
England and Wales, and the Bar of Berlin, advising and representing individuals
in a wide range of matters related to …

Big Mac vs. Supermac: McDonaldโ€™s losesย EUย trademark fight

EU top court ruling says the fast food giant can no longer trademark Big Mac for chicken.

Access to documents: an important victory for transparency in ClientEarth v Council

 

Dimitrios Kyriazis (DPhil, Oxon),
Assistant Professor in EU Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki.

Photo credit: Bela Geletneky, via Wikimedia
Commons

 

In ClientEarth
v Council (Joined Cases T-682…

Foreign policy sanctions and criminal law harmonisation

 Professor Steve Peers, Royal
Holloway University of London

Photo credit: Pierre
Blachรฉ, via Wikicommons

*This blog post draws upon and
updates research for the 5th edition of EU
Justice and Home Affairs Law (OUP,
2023)

The son of a leading businessperson under the Russian sanctions framework before the CJEU: Ongoing relevance of the Tay-Za case law

 

 By Antje Kunst*

Photo credit: Alvegaspar, via Wikicommons media

Many challenges before the EU
General Court of listings or re-listings of Russian oligarchs and their
immediate family members have been unsuccessful in recent past.  …

Judicial control over alleged breaches of fundamental rights in the implementation of Eulex Kosovo and Advocate Generalโ€™s ฤ†apeta’s Opinion in Joined Cases C-29/22 P and C-44/22 P

 Antje
Kunst*

Photo
credit: Sharon Hahn Darlin, via Wikimedia Commons

Advocate
General (โ€˜AGโ€™) ฤ†apeta delivered her Opinion in
Joined Cases Cโ€‘29/22 P and Cโ€‘44/22, KS and KD, on 23 November 2023.
She proposed that individuals may bring an act…

Amazon v DSA: insights from interim proceedings

  

 

Laureline Lemoine,
Senior Associate, AWO Agency

 

Photo credit: KarleHorn,
via Wikimedia Commons

 

On September 27, 2023, the
President of the General Court, Marc van der Woude, issued an order
in the case of Tโ€‘367/…

Responsibility in Joint Returns after WS and Others v Frontex: Letting the Active By-Stander Off the Hook

 

Melanie Fink and Jorrit J
Rijpma

Melanie Fink is APART-GSK Fellow of the Austrian Academy of
Sciences, Central European University and Assistant Professor, Europa
Institute, Leiden University

Jorrit Rijpma is Professor of EU law, Europa Inst…

The EU General Courtโ€™s judgment in the case of WS and Others v Frontex: human rights violations at EU external borders going unpunished

  

Francesca
Romana Partipilo, PhD candidate in
International Law at Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Pisa) 

 

Photo credit: Rock Cohen,
via Wikimedia
commons

(see also critique of the judgment, by Melanie Fink and Jorrit …

Big Tech firms first in line for fines under the EUโ€™s content law

The European Commission will soon be able to investigate and fine some of the most popular social media and e-commerce platforms under the Digital Services Act.

Advocate Generalโ€™s Opinion in Grupa Azoty again lays bare a serious gap in EU judicial protection, yet does nothing to plug the hole

 

Professor Geert van Calster, University of Leuven

Photo credit: Wojciech Antosz, via
Wikimedia Commons

 

Executive summary: Early March Pikamรคe AG opined in Joined Cases C
73/22P and C 77/22 P Grupa Azoty S.A. et
al v European Commissi…

EU foreign policy sanctions: extending and using EU criminal law powers to enforce them

 

Professor Steve Peers,
University of Essex

Photo credit: Pierre Blachรฉ, via Wikicommons

*This blog post draws upon
research for the forthcoming 5th edition of EU Justice and Home Affairs Law (OUP, 2023)

On Monday this week, the EU Council
ad…