District Court Nuremberg-Fürth

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The Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court is a court of ordinary jurisdiction . It is one of 22 regional courts in the Free State of Bavaria .

After the Munich I Regional Court , it is the Regional Court (LG) with the second largest catchment area in Bavaria.

history

The Nuremberg-Fürth district court was created by merging the Fürth and Nuremberg district courts in 1914, which took place gradually after the building of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice and was not completed until 1932. In particular, the jury court room of the Palace of Justice, where the Nuremberg trials and subsequent trials took place, became famous.

Seat and District of the Court

The judicial district of the LG Nürnberg-Fürth includes the independent cities Erlangen , Fürth , Nürnberg , Schwabach and the following districts :

A total of around 1.5 million people live in the district court. 3,098 lawyers (as of December 31, 2013) are admitted and 60 notaries are established in the district court.

Jurisdiction

The Regional Court of Nuremberg-Fürth has first instance jurisdiction for civil law disputes with a value in dispute of over 5000 euros. Otherwise, as a court of appeal and appeal court, it is responsible for appeals against first-instance decisions of the district courts of the district court. The LG Nürnberg-Fürth has a special competence in competition and patent matters . In these matters, it is responsible for all matters in the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court district.

Courthouse

The central building of the Palace of Justice

Together with the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court and the Nuremberg District Court , the court is housed in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice ( Fürther Straße 110).

Superordinate and subordinate courts

The Nuremberg-Fürth regional court is one of five regional courts over which the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court and then the Federal Court of Justice are superordinate. The district courts in Erlangen , Fürth , Hersbruck , Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz , Neustadt an der Aisch , Nuremberg and Schwabach are subordinate to the LG Nürnberg-Fürth .

organization

Around 270 people are currently employed at the Regional Court in Nuremberg-Fürth - including all part-time employees. The number of employees includes 89 judges , 15 judicial officers , 44 probation officers . There are also 259 trainees . In the area of ​​jurisdiction, around 3/5 of the judges are employed in civil matters and around 2/5 in criminal matters. In addition to the employees at the regional court, there are 40 voluntary commercial judges and 400 lay judges .

The district court has 19 civil chambers , five chambers for commercial matters, 18 criminal chambers and a criminal enforcement chamber . The criminal chambers include three youth, seven large and seven small criminal chambers. There are for building matters , fiscal matters, rental and lease terms , competition and patent matters, traffic accident cases , insurance matters , press stuff, money lending matters , lease terms , medical liability matters , home ownership matters , disputes arising out of freight, forwarding and warehouse operations as well as communication and information technology, foreclosure - and bankruptcy proceedings have special responsibilities at the civil chambers.

In 2011, the civil department of the Nuremberg-Fürth Regional Court recorded 6,709 first-instance proceedings, including 670 commercial cases, 1,136 appeal proceedings and 1,367 complaint proceedings. The average completion time was just under eight months. In the case of proceedings that ended in a judgment, the average time it took to deal with them is a little over 13 months, but here too, 62% were completed within 12 months.

In 2011, 300 criminal cases, 1,627 appeal cases, 886 complaint cases and 1,405 criminal enforcement cases were received in the criminal department. About 90% of the first instance criminal proceedings are dealt with within 6 months; another 8% within 12 months. Among the approximately 3% of the proceedings that last longer than a year are predominantly white-collar crimes, which usually take longer due to their complicated content. Approx. 75% of the appointment procedures are dealt with within 3 months and another 20% within 6 months. Only 1.2% of these procedures take more than a year.

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accused

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuremberg Bar Association, www.rak-nbg.de: Announcements WIR 2/14 p. 62. (No longer available online.) April 2, 2014, archived from the original on August 21, 2014 ; Retrieved August 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rak-nbg.de
  2. ↑ Michael Hammer, judicial press spokesman , judge at the Higher Regional Court, www.Justiz.Bayern.de: Press release 05/14 Judgment in the GFE proceedings: District Court Nuremberg-Fürth imposes long prison sentences. February 27, 2014, accessed August 20, 2014 .
  3. ^ LG Nürnberg-Fürth, www.Justiz.Bayern.de: data & facts. June 27, 2014, accessed August 20, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Michael Hammer, judicial press spokesman , judge at the OLG, www.Justiz.Bayern.de: Press release 14/14: Change at the head of the Nuremberg-Fürth regional court. May 30, 2014, accessed August 20, 2014 .
  5. ↑ https://www.justiz.bayern.de/gericht/lg/nfue/impressum/

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '17 "  N , 11 ° 2' 47"  E