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Germany has fixed attorney fees to solve this problem. There are other measures to reduce this problem. I don't understand them fully, so I won't be more specif
by gmueckl 7y ago
Germany has fixed attorney fees to solve this problem. There are other measures to reduce this problem. I don't understand them fully, so I won't be more specific. But it kind of works out in the end. You can't just hire an oversized army of lawyers and dump the bill entirely on the losing party.
- mr__y 7y agoIt seems that Poland has a similar solution* - there are fixed rates and a losing party covers the fees up to that fixed rates. That is anyone is free to hire a lawyer at any rate but the loosing party will have to cover the costs but not more that those fixed rates, so effectively those rates are an upper treshold for repaying legal costs. Additionally a judge may decide that a loosing party does not have to cover those costs - depending on their financial situation (this is a bit more complicated, but since I am not a lawyer I don't know the details here) *I'm quite sure that this solution in Polish legal system was modelled after the German law.