Forum Shopping

Sub-forum shopping (English, literally " court shopping " ) is meant. Systematic exploitation of parallel responsibilities for the sake of certain legal or factual advantages

International Civil Procedure Law

Prerequisite for forum shopping in the International Civil Procedure Law is a competitive international jurisdiction of various courts. Forum Shopping promises to the most success when applied by the courts standing for election laws are different.

Forum shopping can (eg insults, injuries of intellectual property ) are operated at particular tort to the Internet, here is according to the private international law of most countries a place of effect, which determines both the jurisdiction and the applicable law, inland, when content can be found there.

Criminal

A particular problem of forum shopping is in criminal law. In Germany, the judge must must be in place in the act, so that it can not come to forum shopping in Germany, but rather in the context of international criminal law, especially the European arrest warrant.