Translation of "Bisherige rechtsprechung" in English

The Court confirmed its ruling in previous cases and transposed the arguments used to the case under consideration.

The case law does not give a clear answer to this question.

The case law on this issue was both sparse and inconsistent.

The Board can base its answer to this question on existing case law.

The Senate should have corrected its existing case-law accordingly.

The BGH has essentially confirmed and concretised its previous jurisprudence.

2007 was a year in which the established case-law on the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality was confirmed.

In the same judgment the Court also reaffirmed its earlier decisions on the retroactive effect of Regulations.

The criterion of legitimate expectations does not erode the previous case-law, but rather forms its fundamental basis.

The following particulars of the present case give the Legal Board cause to develop further its previous case law:

However, the established jurisprudence of the Czech Supreme Court has yet to accept this line of argument.

This was confirmed by the recent judgment of the Greek Supreme Court of 11 June 2007 in which the court annulled its previous case-law.

The Court referred to its earlier case-law according to which those rules do not apply to situations which have no factor linking them to Community law.

While such measures are often fully in line with national and Community policy in these areas, the past case law of the Court indicates that they may nevertheless constitute State aid according to the criteria set out in Article 87(1) of the Treaty.

The key question, as formulated by the Court of First Instance in its judgment in WestLB with reference to the previous case law, is whether, in similar circumstances, a private investor operating in normal conditions of a market economy and of a comparable size to that of the bodies operating in the public sector could have been prompted to make the capital contribution in question.

The key question, as formulated by the Court of First Instance in WestLB with reference to the previous case law, is whether, in similar circumstances, a private investor operating in normal conditions of a market economy and of a comparable size to that of the bodies operating in the public interest could have been prompted to make the capital contribution in question.

In annulling the Decision on the ground that it infringed essential procedural requirements the Court was holding to its existing case law on the subject.3

The Council of State upheld its case-law on the inclusion of the competition rules in the body of lawguaranteed by the administrative courts.

Referring to its preceding case-law pertaining to the rights of Turkish workers, it firstly declared that, at the very least from the time when a Turkish national covered by this provision enjoys the right of free access to employment in the host Member State, after five years' legal residence for the purpose of reuniting a worker's family, the person concerned derives an individual employment right directly from Decision No 1/80 because of the direct effect of that provision.

The Court also confirmed previous decisions to the effect that it remains validly seized of a request for a preliminary ruling as long as the decision to refer is not withdrawn or quashed, even if an appeal against such decision is pending in proceed­ings before a national court.1

In threejudgments4 the Court, though it did not establish any new principles of fundamental importance, not only reaffirmed its existing case-law, but extended it in certain respects.