Entries by Daniel Meier-Greve

Conditions of carriage for letters: Liability of Swiss Post for the loss of a registered letter

The question of liability for registered mail sent by Deutsche Post is becoming increasingly important, as in the real world of amazon, ebay & Co. goods are increasingly being sent as e.g. registered maxi letters. This is when the question of whether and, if so, to what extent liability on the part of the postal service can be considered comes into play. This is the subject of the following article.

Guide: Judge biased? The application for bias according to § 42 ZPO

Anyone who has ever been forced to seek legal assistance to enforce or defend against claims knows that being right and getting right are different things. It is not uncommon, and this experience is (unfortunately) also familiar to many of those affected, for the court proceedings to be accompanied by the impression that the judge responsible for the decision was not neutral and therefore possibly biased. If this partiality is to one’s own detriment, the question arises as to whether there are options for action in such cases. The following remarks deal with this question.

Every company claiming credit should check claims for repayment! – On the inadmissibility of so-called processing fees in loan agreements with companies.

According to recent rulings by the Federal Court of Justice (judgments of 4 July 2017, case no. XI ZR 562/15 and case no. XI ZR 233/16), processing fees that have been customary for a long time are also inadmissible for loans to companies and thus corresponding agreements in loan agreements – even in the case of overdraft facilities – are invalid.

BGH eliminates widespread misunderstanding of its case law on the application of warranty law for material defects when purchasing shares (judgment of 26.09.2018, case no. VIII ZR 187/17)

BGH eliminates widespread misunderstanding of its case law on the application of warranty law for material defects when purchasing shares! A comprehensive exclusion of statutory warranty claims in the share purchase agreement does not fundamentally preclude the application of Section 313 BGB (frustration of contract)!

What do so-called media agencies do? – An analysis of the usual contractual relationships in the media business.

“By their legal nature, media agency agreements are generally to be qualified as agency agreements in which one party (media agency) undertakes to carry out an independent economic activity to safeguard the financial interests of third parties (in particular media planning and buying) and the other party (advertising client) undertakes to pay a fee.” (BGH ruling from 16.6.2016, ref. III ZR 282/14)