With its ruling passed on 12 January 2022, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof; BGH) upheld the appeal brought against the judgment passed by the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht; OLG) of Dresden...more
For some time now, Berlin has been experiencing a shortage of affordable and socially subsidized housing.
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The Federal Constitutional Court (decision of the Second Senate of 25 March 2021, Ref. 2 BvF 1/20, 2 BvL 4/20, 2 BvL 5/20) has ruled that the so-called “Berlin rent cap” is unconstitutional due to lack of legislative...more
The German Federal Parliament approved the government draft bill for an “Act to further shorten the residual debt discharge procedure” (Federal Parliamentary Doc. 19/21981, 19/22773) on 17 December 2020 in the version of the...more
On 13 December 2020, the Federal Chancellor and the Prime Ministers of the Federal States again decided, in view of the current development of the Covid-19 pandemic, to impose far-reaching measures for contact restrictions....more