CEPEJ Member: Andrea SCHULZ

Head of Unit, International Civil Procedure Law and Arbitration
Federal Ministry of Justice
 

Germany - European Cyberjustice Network member (ECN)

Dr. Katharina von Rosenstiel
Federal Ministry of Justice
 

National Correspondent

Valena WILL
Federal Office of Justice
Legal- and consumer research; criminology; crime prevention; judicial statistics
Adenauerallee 99-103
53113 Bonn

Pilot Courts

Appeal Court of Stuttgart
Jan SPOENLE
Judge
Olgastraße 2, 70182, Stuttgart

District court of Tiergarten
Georg PLÜÜR
Judge
Amtsgericht Tiergarten, Berlin

District court of Freiburg en Brisgau
Andreas NEFF
Court President

Evaluation Exercise

• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2022 Edition
• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2020 Edition
• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2018 Edition
• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2016 Edition
• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2014 Edition
• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2012 Edition
• Germany: Evaluation exercise - 2008 Edition
• Evaluation exercise - 2006 Edition
• Pilot scheme

Events

• Sachsen Anhalt - 24 Oktober 2013 : Europäische Ziviljustiz im Fokus / Focus on the European Civil Justice Weitere Informationen (in Deutsch)
• Sachsen Anhalt - 25 Oktober 2012 : Europäische Ziviljustiz im Fokus / Focus on the European Civil Justice Weitere Informationen (in Deutsch)
• Summary and report of initiatives organised by member States in the framework of the European Day for Civil Justice (2011)
• CEPEJ court coaching programme on judicial time management: Regional court of Fribourg (Germany), April 2012 (in English)

Translations of CEPEJ documents (if available):

• Europäische Ethik-Charta  über den Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz in der Justiz und in ihrem Umfeld (Dezember 2018)
• Deutsche Ausgabe: Europäische Kommission für die Effizienz und Qualität der Justiz (CEPEJ) - Die europäischen Justizsysteme - Ausgabe 2008 (Daten für 2006): Effizienz und Qualität der Justiz

Links to relevant Institutions

• Federal Ministry of Justice
• Federal High Court of Justice
• Federal Constitutional Court
• Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder
• Search engine on law in Germany
• Justizportal des Bundes und der Länder

Resources

• Legal texts (Codes, laws, regulations etc.)
• Case-law of the higher court/s
• Other documents (e.g. forms)

Recent developments in the judicial field

• A special mention of the Crystal Scales of Justice has been delivered to the Family affairs courts and Bar of Berlin (Germany) for the initiative "An accelerated familial procedure" (16 October 2014)
• Draft official federal law: Judicial protection in case of excessive length of judicial procedures and in case of criminal enquiries processes: Extracts / Explanatory note / September 2010 (in French)
• Special distinction awarded at the Crystal Scales of Justice in Brussels in June 2009 on the occasion of the Justice Forum for the project SAS-E-Justice by the General Public Prosecutor's Office of the Land Brandeburg
• Debate under way on large-scale reform of the justice system. Incorporation of the commission’s rules on payment orders and minor disputes.

Organisational chart of the system of justice

• Court system in Germany