Terminating a contract: What are your rights?

Questioner

In 2017 I signed a contract with a daily newspaper for a subscription for 36 months. I now want to cancel the newspaper, prematurely. I called, they indicated that I am not allowed to cancel my contract prematurely but that I am stuck with the contract until June 2020. I realize that I signed the contract myself but honestly I was not aware of the fact that it was a contract for 36 months. I did get a discount, I pay 23.83 per month for the daily newspaper. Not really a significant advantage I think. Is there anything I can do about this, I would like to get out of the contract.

Lawyer

In principle, you are bound to the 3-year contract and you can only get out of it after the end of the contract, whereby you can (usually) get out of the contract after a notice period of 3 months. So you cannot cancel in the meantime, unless there is deception or error, but that does not seem to be the case here. For more information or assistance, please feel free to contact me directly and without obligation.