Terms & Conditions
General Terms & Conditions
1. Scope
These terms and conditions shall apply to all agreements between the Law Firm Weh (Stephanie Weh, Attorney-at-Law), in the following the “Law Firm”, and the principal.
2. Commissioning and Subject Matter of the Contract
A client-lawyer relationship is established upon acceptance and confirmation by the Law Firm. If the Law Firm has made a concrete offer which can be accepted by payment of an agreed remuneration or an agreed advance payment, acceptance shall be declared by the client within one week. Otherwise a client-lawyer relationship shall be established upon confirmation by the Law Firm only. If the agreed remuneration or the agreed advance payment is not fully paid, no client-lawyer relationship shall be established. The Law Firm shall be entitled to consult other lawyers and competent third parties with regard to the order. In case this leads to additional costs the Law Firm shall also engage to obtain the client’s assent beforehand.
3. Remuneration
The amount of the remuneration shall be stipulated in an agreement on remuneration. If no agreement on remuneration is made, the rules of the Code for the Remuneration of Lawyers shall apply with a surcharge of 20%. If an activity is successful, a fee of mutual consent and settlement amounting to twice the legal fee in accordance with RVG VV 1000 or RVG VV 1002 shall be due. A lump sum of EUR 150 shall be charged for mere counselling for which no legal fee is provided. Note: The amount of the legal fees shall depend on the value in litigation. The principal shall have the general duty to pay the Law Firm a reasonable advance payment as well as the full remuneration. For return of payments received without a client-lawyer relationship being established and for handling return debit notes a lump sum of EUR 15.00 shall be agreed. This shall not affect the validity of any further claims for damages.
4. Changes and extensions of the order
Changes and extensions of the order shall be confirmed by the Law Firm. As a result higher fees may be charged.
5. Correctness of information
The Law Firm shall assume the information given by the principal to be correct. In case the information given by the principal turns out to be incorrect the Law Firm shall be entitled to claim a reasonable additional remuneration. In case a statement of correct information makes the Law Firm’s activity dispensable or futile, an additional fee amounting to a fee of mutual consent and settlement in accordance with RVG VV 1000 or RVG VV 1002 shall be due. This shall not affect any agreed or stipulated legal fee.
6. Liability
The Law Firm’s liability shall be limited to EUR 1,000,000 in case of slight negligence.
7. Obligations to cooperate
The principal shall be obligated to do his utmost to support the Law Firm and provide all important information required in time and, upon demand, in writing. Changes in the contact data (address, phone, fax, email) shall be given promptly and voluntarily. Otherwise, the Law Firm cannot assume any liability in case of failure (especially a failure to observe a deadline).
8. Insecure data transfer / Email
If a principal communicates an email address without any security measures (coding) the Law Firm is entitled to send information to the principal or the contact persons named by him via this email address, unless any risk to the client’s interests is obvious from the circumstances or unless the client contradicts or withdraws his consent to this procedure or otherwise communicates a change in particulars. In case any information (notices, inquiries or news) are sent via internet without encoding, confidentiality of the content is not guaranteed due to the technical circumstances. This especially applies to emails and enquiries via unencoded forms.
9. Joint and several liability in case of client majority
Several principals shall be liable to the Law Firm as joint and severally liable persons.
10. Assignment for security; offsetting with outstanding payments
The principal shall assign all claims for reimbursement and damages arising from the client-lawyer relationship with respect to the defendant or the treasury to the Law Firm at the amount of the fee charged. The Law Firm shall be entitled to inform the persons liable to pay of the assignment on behalf of the principal and is exempt from the limitations of § 181 German Civil Code (BGB). The Law Firm may offset reimbursement sums with unpaid charges for fees. The principal’s duty to pay shall remain paramount.
11. Language
German shall be the working language of the Law Firm. No liability shall be assumed for any translation mistakes. This does not affect liability of commissioned lawyers or their assistants for intent and gross negligence.
12. Final provisions
Any rights from the client-lawyer relationship may only be ceded with prior consent in writing. For all contractual relations between the parties the law of the Federal Republic of Germany shall solely apply. The place of jurisdiction and fulfilment shall be Frankfurt on the Main, if legally permissible. Any changes or supplements to these terms shall be made in writing. This shall also apply to this provision. Any invalidity of individual provisions of this agreement shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this agreement. Any invalid provision shall be replaced by a legally permissible provision which comes economically closest to the intent of the invalid provision. This shall also apply in case a breach of the contract becomes obvious or a provision proves to be unfeasible.
Right of Cancellation for Consumers
As a consumer you shall have a right of cancellation when entering into a distance selling contract. You may withdraw your consent to the contract in the form of a text (e.g. letter, fax, email) within two weeks without stating any reasons. The term shall start no earlier than upon receipt of this instruction. For observation of the cancellation term it shall suffice to send the cancellation in time. The cancellation shall be addressed to the Law Firm Weh, Kurfürstenstr. 18, 60486 Frankfurt, Germany. For further contact details see Legal Notice.
Your right of cancellation shall expire prematurely if the Law Firm started execution of the respective service before expiry of the cancellation term with your explicit consent or if you initiated this yourself.
Data Protection Declaration
During a visit on this website your IP address shall be registered automatically. The date and time of your visit and the selected sites and, if applicable, the search words which lead you to this site shall be registered automatically, as well. These data shall serve for compiling access statistics. The statistics shall be prepared by external service providers, and apart from Ms. Weh Attorney-at-Law, their system administrators shall also have access to these data.
The data shall only be used internally and shall not be supplied to third parties.
You have the right to disagree with this use. In this case please state your IP address and the time of access to this website. Your data will then be deleted from the statistics.
Particulars sent to the Law Firm Weh via a form or via email shall be used for internal use only. Your particulars shall not be supplied to a third party.