Proposal for Professional Training for Bailiffs

With the exception of the state of Baden-Württemberg, where the reformed bailiff training program has now been in place for ten years, none of the other federal states has yet introduced such a transition to university-level training. 

Ultimately, this is hardly surprising, as there is still a comparatively limited engagement by legal scholarship and legal policy with the subjects of bailiff training and the legal framework governing the bailiff profession.  

For this reason as well, the Kassel Research Center for Enforcement and Judicial Law has taken a closer look at this fundamental issue over the past twelve months or so as part of a research project and has now developed a draft model for a “Act Regulating the Duties, Responsibilities, and Professional Training of Bailiffs (Bailiff Status Act—GvStatG).” 

For the first time, the project addresses the topic of modern bailiff service law from the perspective of civil procedure and enforcement law scholarship in the concrete form of a model draft law. 

This is intended to contribute to the discussion and, at the same time, to offer a concrete proposal—from both a professional and procedural law perspective—for modern professional regulations governing bailiffs.

The electronic version of this model bill can be found here.