Strukturierter Parteivortrag im digital geführten Zivilprozess - Richterliche Verfahrensleitung und Sanktionierung parteiseitigen Fehlverhaltens

The digitalization of civil proceedings improves the framework conditions for a structured presentation of the parties' submissions. Building on existing approaches that require the parties to structure their statements of case, Florian Grießer develops a structuring concept that generates a tabular overview of the entire procedural communication. This concept is distinguished by the fact that it grants the parties the greatest possible freedom of presentation while simultaneously enabling the spatial alignment of substantively related content. An individual sorting function, in particular, eliminates the need for the defendant to adhere to the claimant's structure-a requirement commonly found in comparable proposals. Such a structuring concept must be safeguarded through enforcement mechanisms. In Grießer's model, sanctions serve as instruments of judicial case management to achieve multiple objectives. They must be effective and, at the same time, compatible with constitutional principles, should entail only minimal administrative effort, and should impose the negative consequences of non-compliance on the responsible party or even on their legal counsel. Drawing inspiration from sanctions in English civil procedure, the author designs a three-stage, escalating enforcement system: if a request for revision remains unheeded, the party must index its submission with keywords and bear additional court and solicitor's fees. If a submission is incorrectly indexed and overlooked by the court, a preclusion sanction is imposed in the subsequent instance.




The work was awarded the 2025 Doctoral Prize in Law of the University of Tübingen.

Einleitung

1. Kapitel: Konzept eines strukturierten Parteivortrags


A. Bisherige Vorschläge zur parteiseitigen Strukturierung des Vortrags



B. Der "sortierbare strukturierte Parteivortrag"



C. Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsweise der betroffenen Berufsträger



D. Zugang zum Parteivortrag



E. Anwendung des Strukturierungskonzepts außerhalb von Anwaltsprozessen



F. Fazit zum Strukturierungskonzept des "sortierbaren strukturierten Parteivortrags"

2. Kapitel: Durchsetzung des Strukturierungskonzepts


A. Prozessuale Durchsetzungsmechanismen im englischen Recht



B. Durchsetzungsmechanismen für den "sortierbaren strukturierten Parteivortrag" im deutschen Zivilprozess


Schlussbetrachtung



Thesen



Anhang: Interview with Sir Marcus Smith, President of the United Kingdom Competition Appeal Tribunal