Home | is lodging appeals via the Electronic Court and Administration Mailbox (Elektronisches Gerichts- und Verwaltungspostfach – EGVP) already mandatory for public prosecutors under § 32b (3) Sentence 2 of the code of criminal procedure (StPO)?

is lodging appeals via the Electronic Court and Administration Mailbox (Elektronisches Gerichts- und Verwaltungspostfach – EGVP) already mandatory for public prosecutors under § 32b (3) Sentence 2 of the code of criminal procedure (StPO)?

Are these appeals otherwise invalid (e.g. when lodged by fax) and thus usually expired?

Philipp Rhein and Dr. Oliver Pragal have given some thought to this exciting question in the new edition of Stv-Spezial.

Remarkably, the Federal Court of Justice ruled contrary to our opinion on this matter, as the argument of the inadmissibility of an appeal had been asserted in these proceedings (https://lnkd.in/eeJ5zb6C).

It will be interesting to hear the reasoning behind the judgement.