Judgment_paragraph 33 · Česká spořitelna, a.s. v Gerald Feichter (C-419/11)

33It is also apparent from the Court’s case-law that the special rules introduced by the provisions of the Brussels Convention on jurisdiction over consumer contracts serve to ensure adequate protection for the consumer, as the party deemed to be economically weaker and less experienced in legal matters than the other, commercial, party to the contract (see, inter alia, Gruber, paragraph 34, and Engler, paragraph 39). That role implies that the application of the rules of special jurisdiction laid down to that end by the Brussels Convention should not be extended to persons for whom that protection is not justified (see, to that effect, Shearson Lehman Hutton, paragraph 19).