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ELCE11: Till Jaeger on AVM vs. CybitsELCE11: Till Jaeger on AVM vs. CybitsPosted Nov 3, 2011 9:33 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)In reply to: ELCE11: Till Jaeger on AVM vs. Cybits by tialaramex Parent article: ELCE11: Till Jaeger on AVM vs. Cybits
You are right that trials should be the last resort -- and actually, Harald Welte always tries to settle out of court first.
But a very big difference between US and Germany is that trials are not as expensive here as in the US. For each law case there's a "standard" lawyer fee that's regulated and that's dependent on the amount of money involved ("streitsumme", didn't find a translation for that). First, the money involved is not as high as in the US, and second, the loser pays that standard fee of the winner's side. A difference might also be that we have a civil law system instead of the Anglo-American common law system, but that's for a lawyer to explain. ;-)
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ELCE11: Till Jaeger on AVM vs. Cybits Posted Nov 4, 2011 13:56 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
"contested sum" or "disputed sum", though that's by applying dutch ("streit" sounds like it's the analogue of the dutch "strijd" to me) and Google Translate. ;)
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