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Rechtsfindung

09:21 Jun 21, 2019
German to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general)
German term or phrase: Rechtsfindung
Rechtsfindung meint die [richterliche] Ermittlung der auf einen Lebenssachverhalt anzuwendenden Rechtsnormen durch Interpretation, Analogie aus bzw. zu geschriebenem oder ungeschriebenem Recht oder durch Ableitung aus der Natur der Sache.
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Da das vom EuGH interpretierte Europarecht in allen normalen Rechtstreitigkeiten anzuwenden ist, müsste ein Mitgliedstaat den Rechtsgehorsam aufkündigen, wenn er dieser Interpretation nicht folgen wollte. Daher ist die Rechtsfindung des EuGH schon lange die eigentlich treibende Kraft einer „integration through law“ dar und hat praktisch das letzte Wort gegenüber der Politik.
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Strategic litigation bedeutet, dass Individuen oder soziale Bewegungen den Rechtsweg beschreiten, um in einem Gerichtsprozess umstrittene Normen oder die bisherige Rechtsprechung zu Fall zu bringen. Denn der EuGH urteilt in letzter Instanz über Auslegung und Anwendung der Verträge und des europäischen Rechts (Rechtsfindung).
Eszter Bokor
Austria
Local time: 06:52


Summary of answers provided
4 +1establishing/determining the applicable law
Michael Martin, MA
4 +1Judicial determination
AllegroTrans
4judicial findings
Cillie Swart
3fair and equitable adjudication
Adrian MM.


  

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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
judicial findings


Explanation:
I would use judicial instead of legal.


    https://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&query=Rechtsfindung
Cillie Swart
South Africa
Local time: 06:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 39

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: Not quite: it's about the generic process itself, not the specific findings
3 days 1 hr
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
fair and equitable adjudication


Explanation:
- namely, finding justice and reaching 'equitable' (small E) and fair vs. partisan outcomes by adjudication.


Example sentence(s):
  • Wir erstellen jährlich über 800.000 Schaden- und unfallanalytische Gutachten und tragen somit zur Rechtsfindung bei. dekra.de We produce more than 800,000 damage and accident analyses a year, and thus help to achieve an equitable conclusion.
  • Giving judgment in Beumer v Vinci [2016] EWHC 2283 (TCC), Fraser J recapped that adjudicators must comply with the requirements of natural justice.

    Reference: http://www.linguee.de/deutsch-englisch/uebersetzung/rechtsfi...
    Reference: http://brexitcentral.com/european-court-justice-not-adjudica...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 115

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: No doubt at all that adjudication should be fair & equitable, but this is over-translation
3 days 25 mins
  -> OK. Then just omit the qualifiers of fair and equitable (ex aequo et bono). The web refs, though, suggest that Recht has as much the sense of justice as of the law.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
establishing/determining the applicable law


Explanation:
I have yet to find a decent translation of this concept ("finding/extracting the law" doesn't count) but I think my solution will fit the German definition you cited.

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 00:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 364

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Haigo Salow: determining is better than establishing, since the laws have already been established, they just need to be found and interpreted. IMO
1 day 9 hrs
  -> Thanks. I think I was trying to use "establish" in the sense of "put beyond doubt/prove", based on Merriam Webster
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3 days 3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Judicial determination


Explanation:
Judicial determination means the determination by the Judge of the legal norms to be applied to a circumstance of life through interpretation, analogy from written or unwritten law or deriving from the nature of the matter.
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AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 05:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 165

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cillie Swart: seems plausible
863 days
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