14. November 2024
author:
Dr. Philip Scholz |
Valentin Münscher
Air passenger rights: digital civil lawsuit is being implemented
Passengers may be entitled to compensation if their flight is delayed by three hours or more. This often happens in Germany - and therefore makes “air passenger rights” the subject of one of the most frequent legal proceedings before the local courts. It will soon be possible to prepare and file a claim digitally at the first local courts. This makes the judicial assertion of “air passenger rights” the first case study to be realized as part of the “Online Civil Court Procedure” project by the Federal Ministry of Justice (BMJ) and the DigitalService. In the blog article, we show how we are breaking new ground in cooperation between the federal and state governments with the development and testing of online civil court proceedings and explain why a separate testing law is required for the introduction of online proceedings.
(The full blog post is currently available in German only.)
Dr. Philip Scholz
is Ministerial Councilor has been Head of the Legal Tech and Access to Justice Division at the Federal Ministry of Justice since 2019. He has worked at the Ministry since 2010 and was initially a consultant in the divisions for data protection law, private international law and immigration law as well as press spokesman for several years. From 2018 until his current position, he was Head of the Minister's Office. He studied law in Heidelberg and completed his legal clerkship in Freiburg, Berlin, and Toulouse. In 2003, he received his doctorate from the University of Kassel with a thesis on data protection in e-commerce.
Valentin Münscher
has been working as Senior Transformation Manager at DigitalService since June 2023. Prior to this, he worked closely with many different levels of administration for over 15 years in a wide variety of roles for NGOs and in politics. He supported institutions in their own structural digitalization and was involved in the use of digital media in education at an early stage. Valentin has two children and is therefore often out and about in Berlin's playgrounds. And he is a walking jukebox who knows the right song for every situation.
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