The Landgericht Cologne's own judgment of 7 May 2012, case 151 Ns 169/11, is a primary legal source: the appellate court's own ruling that circumcising a child too young to consent amounts to bodily harm even when performed properly and with parental permission, confirmed against independent legal commentary and the court record itself. Its strength is that it is the actual text of the ruling that prompted Germany's later statutory response, not a secondary account of it. Its limit is the ordinary one for any single court's ruling: it is the reasoning of one appellate panel in one case, later superseded in practical effect by the legislation it provoked, and it should be read as the ruling's own reasoning rather than as settled German law today.
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Reliability Tier1
Reliability tier 1: the primary text of the ruling itself, confirmed against independent legal commentary and the court record, though later superseded in practical effect by the legislation it provoked. NotesThe Landgericht Cologne's own judgment on the legality of religious circumcision (151 Ns 169/11, 2012); the court's ruling on the criminal case before it, not an independent religious-studies account of circumcision.
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AuthorLandgericht Cologne
Publication Year2012
Source Typelegal
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