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In the German system, civil litigation is a lot faster and less expensive, despite having the same level of public satisfaction as much more expensive countries [1]

I'm no expert on their system, but there's some regulation of lawyers' fees ('RVG') and also a different system of law - among other things, they do not recognise the concept of precedent, making rulings on statute alone - which means questions of law are much more easily resolved.

Of course, replacing a country's entire justice system would be politically complex in the extreme.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1641554




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