UPC APP 64018/2024

The Local Division Munich held that R.275.1 RoP requires an attempt at alternative service even when formal service under the Hague Convention has been seriously and definitively refused, but that alternative service can be dispensed with only if legally and factually impossible; since no alternative was available, the court was unable to order good service under R.275.2 without first exhausting other options.

Duplicate document of the same order issued on 9 December 2024 by the Local Division Munich concerning alternative service: the court held that alternative service must be attempted before resorting to R.275.2 RoP, unless no legally and factually possible alternative exists.