It is important that, if citizens are free to choose the court where they can make their claim, they cannot simply choose the courts of one Member State rather than another just because the law is more favourable to their cause there (a practice known as "forum-shopping").
Ja divas personas no dažādām valstīm noslēdz līgumu, tās izvēlas, kurā pusē lieta atrisināma strīda gadījumā.