Back in 2011, a legislative initiative to allow commercial matters in German courts to be heard in the English language made it to the stage of expert hearings in parliament, but then slowly and quietly passed away. The proposal known as Gesetz zur Einführung von Kammern für internationale Handelssachen (KfiHG) formally became obsolete when the parliamentary term ended with last year’s elections. Today, Hamburg has taken the issue up again and re-introduced the initiative to the Upper Chamber (Bundesrat) of the German parliament. The scope of the proposal apparently has remained unchanged. In 2011, the majority of the experts heard in parliament were in support of the proposal – see here for a report by one of the experts. We will see how far it gets in this second attempt.
Month: February 2014
Jurablogs 2014
The results for Jurablogs 2014 are out: Dispute Resolution Germany came second in the litigation category, beaten only by the Beck Blog. Many thanks, dear readers, for your votes! Given that Beck Blog is a multi-author blog produced by C.H. Beck, the best-known brand in German legal publishing, I almost feel like having won the gold medal. And last but not least, kudos to Johannes Zöttl of Kartellblog.de for all the effort he put into organizing the poll. Hope he does it again!