{"id":8855,"date":"2018-07-06T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T11:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal-plus.eu\/on-the-scope-of-a-so-called-pleading-discount\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T11:43:26","slug":"on-the-scope-of-a-so-called-pleading-discount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legal-plus.eu\/en\/on-the-scope-of-a-so-called-pleading-discount\/","title":{"rendered":"On the scope of a so-called “pleading discount"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or: When are submissions in the appeal instance “new”?<\/p>\n

In its decision of 27.2.2018, case no. VIII ZR 90\/17<\/a>, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) specified – very importantly for practice – how comprehensively the so-called pleading discount pursuant to Section 283 ZPO is to be understood (see also the blog post: Appeal courts often wrongly reject late submissions at first instance). <\/p>\n

The court of first instance must grant the party surprised by the late submission of the opposing party the right to be heard – without adjourning or reopening the oral hearing – by giving this party the opportunity to comment on this submission within a certain period of time at its request.<\/p>\n

With regard to the scope of the opportunity to comment in the sense described above, the courts of lower instances – as the BGH has now once again pointed out – tend to have too narrow an understanding, which tends to limit admissible submissions solely to comments on the correctness or incorrectness of the submission in question.<\/p>\n

The BGH has made it clear that the right to comment goes much further:<\/p>\n

Entirely new submissions are also to be admitted if and insofar as they are made “in response to the belated submissions of the opposing party”.<\/p>\n

The BGH has stated (see decision of 27.2.2018, para. 24):<\/p>\n

\n

“Section 283 ZPO is intended to enable a party who is no longer able to respond to an opponent’s submission in good time to make a statement on this within a certain period of time, i.e. to dispute or concede it – if necessary also by means of substantiated counterclaims – or finally to counter it by means of an independent means of attack or defense, possibly based on new factual assertions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This means:<\/p>\n

Even completely (!) new allegations may be admissible if they are to be considered as a “reaction” to the late submission of the opponent.<\/p>\n

If the court of first instance fails to recognize this and disregards the allegations in question in its judgment with reference to Section 296a ZPO, this is not a “new” submission in the appeal instance, which must be assessed by the court of appeal without further ado.<\/p>\n

The lesson to be learned from this ruling is that even higher courts repeatedly misapply procedural rules. So: watch out! <\/p>\n

Do you have any questions?<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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