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Norbert towing is a judge on Finanzgericht Lower Saxony and has a major concern: to restore the independence of the judiciary. This is the dedicated lawyer is no longer guaranteed, and recognizes it as a threat to one of the fundamental pillars of our Constitution. In particular, access to the executive on the judiciary and the consequent erosion of the separation of powers in our country has crisis proportions. Is particularly clear example of this development on the handling of the politically persecuted in the context of “land and industrial reform 1945-1949 in the SBZ after reunification, when Read more

Horst Trieflinger is chairman of the association against legal abuses Association (SNA), which was founded in 1989 by people, the bad experiences with the judiciary and lawyers have made. VGR there since that time, Council and tips on self-help also concerned for  Read more

Savings Bank customers can expect greater transparency in fees and interest rate adjustments changes expected. A court annulled the previous terms and conditions to be invalid.

The customers of savings banks in Germany will be more rights. The Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) ruled on Tuesday in a landmark ruling that the terms and conditions (AGB) and the Sparkassen clearly understandable for the customer have to be determined.

The court, through the formulation of change refers to a clause in the GC, the adjustment of fees and interest rate controls. “Unless otherwise agreed, the charges for residential and business area of the Savings Bank, taking into account the market situation (eg change in the general level of interest rates) and the expenses reasonably adopted and amended.”

That rule was unclear and should not be used, said the ruling. Rather, the relevant clauses in the contractual obligations of the banks clear and understandable name.

The injunction was appropriate from the Community protection for bank customers against the savings eV Fürth and Oder-Spree collected. Already earlier in the club got the right protection: On the one hand, the formulations according to the banks also entitled to collect illegal fees such as costs for cash payments. The unilateral right of the price savings in addition contain no requirement of the bank, also to reduce fees. Thus, the company also charges to the profit increase, thus inadmissible.

The savings were against the revision of judgments gone now but failed before the Federal Court final.

Until today, every government failed us, the billion-dollar losses in the context of loss-management of old factory buildings, meadows and arable land their citizens expect. People’s representatives and officials silent German taxpayers the huge personnel costs, the state spends, this lack of management to maintain. You failed to mention that they surreptitiously Americans - correctly - to pay full market value paid, while their own citizens as second-class citizens abstempelten.  Read more

The state of Brandenburg gets a Stasi officer. According to Daily Mail Online has the CDU Jorn Mothes proposed for this office. The SPD group wants the council to agree. Brandenburg was the only state so far no Stasi officer.
Brandenburg gets 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall as the last new state a Stasi officer. The grand coalition, after months of wrangling agreed, even in this legislature until the autumn to pave the way for the Office to make. The Vice-Minister-President Johanna Wanka (CDU) was the former country representative for the Stasi documents of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Jorn Mothes, proposed for the post, said SPD chief Gunter Baaske after the group meeting. The SPD would agree with this suggestion.  Read more

The conflicts between the children and adolescents can not separate the father fall on the foster parent or unmarried partner who can not be held liable if the child refuses to comply with the meetings with the other parent on the basis of their own free choice. He established the sixth section of the Criminal Court of Cassation which upheld the act as the judge for preliminary investigations of the Court of Bergamo had ordered the filing against a woman who had been denounced by former husband for the crime non-performance on the court in relation to the children, accusing of having obstructed the meetings of her daughter with her father.  Read more

The e-mail, digital signatures and electronic billing are considered valid for 89.5% of lawyers, according to a study by Cybex

Electronic evidence, any information obtained through an electronic device or digital media used to acquire the certainty of conviction at trial a fact-that is, an e-mail, an electronic signature or digital bills) are considered equivalent and as valid as the traditional line with a study by the Spanish investigation of fraud in virtual environments Cybex.  Read more

1. Everyone is entitled to a hearing with the necessary guarantees, within a reasonable time by a judge or a competent, independent and impartial tribunal previously established by law, which will decide the merits of any charges against him in criminal matters, or determine its rights and obligations in civil and in the areas of labor, taxation, or any other field.

2. Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law. During the proceedings, it is entitled in full equality, at least the following guarantees:  Read more

International humanitarian law (IHL) is a set of rules which, for humanitarian reasons, seek to limit the effects of armed conflict. It protects people who do not or no longer fighting and restricts the means and methods of warfare. IHL is also known as “law of war” or “law of armed conflict.”

IHL is part of international law governing relations between States. The latter is formed by agreements between states, called treaties or conventions, international custom, established by the practice of States accepted by them as required, and the general principles of law. Read more