[15B Jurisdiction in relation to consumer contracts]
Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 (1982 c 27) | Legislation

[15B  Jurisdiction in relation to consumer contracts]

[(1)     This section applies in relation to proceedings whose subject-matter is a matter relating to a consumer contract where the consumer is domiciled in the United Kingdom.

(2)     The consumer may bring proceedings against the other party to the consumer contract—

(a)     where the other party to the consumer contract is domiciled in the United Kingdom, in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the other party to the consumer contract is domiciled, or

(b)     in the courts for the place where the consumer is domiciled (regardless of the domicile of the other

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