Qualification for judicial office
In Germany, a person qualified to hold the office of a judge (also known as a fully qualified lawyer ) is someone who has successfully completed a law degree at a university with the first examination and a subsequent preparatory service ( legal traineeship ) with the second state examination ( Section 5 (1) DRiG ) or more properly Is a professor of law at a German university ( Section 7 (1) DRiG ).
Requirements for professions
The qualification for judicial office is a prerequisite for the typical professions of a lawyer such as judge ( § 8 No. 3 DRiG ) - basically including the judge of the Federal Constitutional Court ( § 3 Abs. 2 BVerfGG ) - public prosecutor ( § 122 Abs. 1 DRiG ), lawyer ( § 4 S. 1 No. 1 BRAO ) or notary ( § 5 S. 1 BNotO ). Anyone who is qualified to hold the office of judge also has a career qualification for the higher non-technical administrative service ( Section 21 (2 ) FSVO ).
Qualification for the office of judge is required for certain posts in the higher service . The chairman of the G 10 Commission ( Section 15, Paragraph 1, Sentence 1, G 10 ) and the President or Vice-President of the Federal Audit Office ( Section 3, Paragraph 3, Sentence 2 of the BRHG ) must be qualified to hold judicial office.
Others
According to the provisions of the judicial training laws of the federal states , passing the second state examination, which enables the judge to be a judge, can usually also be designated as " Assessor " or " Legal Assessor (Ass. Jur.)".
Persons qualified to serve as judges are allowed to provide free legal services outside of family, neighborly or similarly close personal relationships or to instruct them ( Section 6 (2 ) RDG ). This is important e.g. B. for student legal advice in Germany .
The preparatory service takes place in a public-law apprenticeship relationship and only in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and in the state of Hesse as a civil servant relationship upon revocation .
Individual evidence
- ↑ § 61 Legal Training Act North Rhine-Westphalia - JAG NRW. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Section 10 (1) of the Lower Saxony Law on the Training of Jurists - NJAG. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ § 18 Berlin Lawyer Training Act - JAG. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ § 61 Legal Training and Examination Regulations Baden-Württemberg - JAPrO. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ § 68 Training and Examination Regulations for Lawyers Bavaria - JAPO. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Section 26 of the Legal Training Act (JAG) in the version published on March 15, 2004. Accessed on January 9, 2020 .
