Gerichtssprache im Zivilprozess

The politics, business and legal communities are delighted that the legislator cleared the way for English-language commercial litigation before German courts in April 2025. However, this book highlights the disadvantages of the reform. Both the quality of case law and publicity are set to decline, which is unacceptable from a constitutional point of view. The book also sheds light on aspects of court language that are often overlooked in the current focus on large-scale commercial litigation. It considers access to legal protection for non-German speakers, given that German remains the default court language, and it discusses the exception for the Sorbian language, as set out in § 184, sentence 2, of the German Judicial Code (GVG).