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The State Court for the German Reich was established under Article 108 of the Weimar Constitution by the Law on the State Court of 9 July 1921. [1] Its seat was at Leipzig along with the Reichsgericht (Reich Court or National Court). The State Court did not sit permanently but was convened only as required (§1 of the Law on the State Court).
The judiciary of Germany is the system of courts that interprets and applies the law in Germany.. The German legal system is a civil law mostly based on a comprehensive compendium of statutes, as compared to the common law systems.
Their opposite are the Federal Courts. According to article 92 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany, the judicial power is exercised by the Constitutional Court, by the Federal Courts enumerated in the Basic Law, and otherwise by the courts of the states. Courts of the states are:
The acts standardised court types and procedural rules across the newly formed German Empire and established judicial independence and unrestricted access to the courts. [1] The court's jurisdiction included both criminal and civil cases. It handled appeals, charges of treason and, after 1920, the compatibility of state and national laws.
The Bundesrat, a state government, or a state parliament may ask the court to determine whether a federal law complies with Article 72(2) of the Basic Law – which regards various topics in which both the federal and state governments may pass legislation, but where the federal government's legislative power is restricted to ensuring ...
Germany’s highest court on Tuesday ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in Berlin because of severe glitches at many polling stations in the capital. ... a state election ...
The Kammergericht (KG) is the Oberlandesgericht, the highest state court, for the city-state of Berlin, Germany.As an ordinary court according to the German Courts Constitution Act (Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz), it deals with criminal and civil cases, superior to the local Amtsgerichte and the Landgericht Berlin.
Germany's Constitutional Court on Tuesday ruled in favour of an injunction brought by a conservative lawmaker against the government's planned heating bill, saying consultation time for the law ...