Germany Lifted Its Foreign Discovery Ban, But Hurdles Persist

By Finn Zeidler, Annekathrin Schmoll and Vanessa Ludwig ( August 10, 2022, 9:43 PM BST) -- Until June 30, any foreign court outside the European Union that requested pretrial discovery in Germany under the 1970 Hague Convention on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters would have hit a dead end....

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