Requested judge

The requested judge is for the purpose of obtaining evidence from another court to the execution of a specific proof process, usually with the hearing of a witness commissioned judge . The possibility of requesting a judge in this way was created for reasons of procedural economy, for example in order to save the witness from having to travel to a distant court and to enable the judge who is closer to the location to take the evidence. In contrast to the commissioned judge , who was commissioned by the trial court to collect evidence, the requested judge always belongs to a foreign court according to his function.

In Germany, the requested judge is standardized in Section 229 of the Code of Civil Procedure .