Type: Judgment

Authority: European Authorities: Euopean Communities' Court of Justice

Date: 11/25/2008

Subject: Ruling about a case concerning the transport of bovine animals, the Court affirmed that Community law does not require national courts to apply, of their own motion, a provision of Community law where such application would lead them to deny the principle, called upon in the relevant national law, of the prohibition of reformatio in pejus.

Parties: Heemskerk BV, Firma Schaap

Classification: Justice - Art. 48 Rights of defence

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