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German law is not impregnated with legal positivism to the extent of Napoleonic legal systems, so Germany's judiciary is not subordinated to the legislature; the Basic Law directly invests supreme judicial power in the Constitutional Court as well as other federal courts and the courts of each Länder, and case law has greater importance ...
The Federal Constitutional Court (German: Bundesverfassungsgericht, usually abbreviated BVerfG) is the federal constitutional court of Germany. It is the highest independent constitutional organ of the German judiciary, ranking equally with the other supreme federal courts, and is – at the same time – the highest federal court in Germany.
In Germany, federal courts (German: Bundesgerichte pronounced [ˈbʊndəsɡəˌʁɪçtə] ⓘ, singular Bundesgericht) are courts which are established by federal law.. According to article 92 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, the judiciary power is exercised by the Federal Constitutional Court, the federal courts provided for in the Basic Law, and the courts of the Länder ...
Interior of the Cologne OLG. An Oberlandesgericht (German: [ˈoːbɐˌlandəsɡəʁɪçt] ⓘ; plural – Oberlandesgerichte pronounced [ˈoːbɐˌlandəsɡəʁɪçtə] ⓘ; OLG, English: Higher Regional Court, [1] [notes 1] or in Berlin Kammergericht: KG) is a higher court in Germany.
What ensued was a prolonged period of judicial independence of the dozens of newly-sovereign German states within the German Confederation. [8] In the states of central and northern Germany, this changed following the foundation of the North German Confederation, where the Leipzig-based Bundesoberhandelsgericht commenced operation in August ...
The Amtsgericht in Zehdenick. An Amtsgericht (District Court) in Germany is an official court. [1] These courts form the lowest level of the so-called 'ordinary jurisdiction' of the German judiciary (German Ordentliche Gerichtsbarkeit), which is responsible for most criminal and civil judicial matters. [2]
The Reichsgericht began its work on 1 October 1879, the date on which the Reichsjustizgesetze (Imperial Judiciary Acts) came into effect. The acts standardised court types and procedural rules across the newly formed German Empire and established judicial independence and unrestricted access to the courts.
The Supreme Court of the German Democratic Republic (German: Oberstes Gericht der DDR) was the highest judicial organ of the GDR. It was set up in 1949 and was housed on Scharnhorststraße 6 in Berlin. The building now houses the district court in Berlin, Germany 2 Instance and the District Court Berlin-Mitte. In the early days, 14 judges made ...