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Court Proceedings To Be Conducted in a Foreign Language?

By Eugene Volokh

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From The Local:

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung paper reported at the weekend that justice ministers of North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg, Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter and Till Steffen respectively, aimed to change the law governing the German courts so that cases could be conducted in English.

The paper says many internationally-active businesses were used to negotiating and closing contracts in English, and made provisions to deal with disputes in the same language ? ensuring that any court cases are heard in an English-speaking country.

?Germany as a legal centre suffers from the fact that court laws stipulate that German is the language to be used,? Müller-Piepenkötter said. ?Foreign contract partners and parties in court cases are wary of dealing with things in a foreign language before a German court.? ...

Thanks to David Wilson for the pointer.

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Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on January 10, 2010 (boomark / email).