25In the second place it should be pointed out that Article 16 must not be given a wider interpretation than is required by its objective, since it results in depriving the parties of the choice of forum which would otherwise be theirs and, in certain cases, in their being brought before a court which is not that of the domicile of any of them (judgments in Cases 73/77 Sanders v van der Putte [1977] ECR 2383, at paragraphs 17 and 18, and C-115/88 Reichert, cited above, at paragraph 9).
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