SEMINAR 2: GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND UNFAIR TERMS
Lectures to read before the class:
•Council Directive 93/13/EEC of 5 April 1993 on unfair terms in consumer
contracts
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31993L0013:EN:HTML
•Act 7/1998, of April 13, on General Terms and Conditions, en endavant LCGC:
http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Privado/l7-1998.html
•Spanish Royal Decree 1/2007, of November 16, which merges the now repealed
Spanish Consumers Protection Act and other complementary Acts
http://noticias.juridicas.com/base_datos/Admin/rdleg1-2007.html
Additional lectures:
•Carrasco Perera, Ángel, “Capítulo 16. Control de validez de condiciones
generales y cláusulas abusivas”, Derecho de Contratos, Thomson-Aranzadi,
Cizur Menor (Navarra), 2010, pp. 771-832
•STS, 1a., 2.3.2011 (RJ 2011\1833)
•SAP Barcelona, sec. 11a., de 25.9.2002 (JUR 2003\8358)
•SAP Màlaga, sec. 6a., 17.12.2007 (JUR 2008\246078)
1. We will discuss the following case and questions
On May 2011, Ms. Anna Miró hired the services of the lawyer Mònica Plana, from
the law firm “Germans Plana Advocats”, to defense her interests in the
inheritance proceeding of her father, who died one month ago with personal
assets amounting 1 million Euros.
The service contract signed with the law firm included the general clauses about
price, terms of payment and requirements to the services rendered and final
clauses in a different font and in a lower size, in which it was established the
Spanish law as the applicable law to the contract, that the competent courts will
be the ones of the client’s domicile, that both parties may act in good faith during
the contract and if Ms. Miró decides to terminate the contract, Ms. Miró is obliged
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