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You want your day in German Court? Don’t get your hopes up too high!

How important is the oral hearing stage in German civil litigation?

When you read the relevant sections of the German Code of Civil Procedure (Zivilprozessordnung) one gets the impression that in a German civil case the parties will extensively lay out and discuss the case in front of the judge. Section 128 ZPO, which is headed “Principle of oral argument” states:

(1) The parties shall submit their arguments regarding the legal dispute to the court of decision orally.

More specifically, section 137 German Civil Procedure Code sets out the following : mehr lesen…