{"id":67769,"date":"2016-09-02T06:46:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T04:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/?p=67769"},"modified":"2024-10-22T15:24:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T13:24:34","slug":"lhr-obtains-preliminary-injunction-against-investor-protection-lawyer-due-to-disparaging-misleading-advertising-on-lawyer-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/magazine-en\/media-law-personal-rights\/lhr-obtains-preliminary-injunction-against-investor-protection-lawyer-due-to-disparaging-misleading-advertising-on-lawyer-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"LHR obtains preliminary injunction against "investor protection lawyer" due to disparaging, misleading advertising on lawyer platform"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Time and again we report on cases of unfair advertising by \u201cinvestor protection law firms\u201d or other media that are – actually or only ostensibly – committed to consumer protection.<\/em><\/p>\n

Most recently in June 2016 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Playing on investors’ fears<\/h3>\n

In a recent case, an \u201cinvestor protection lawyer\u201d has once again attempted to scare investors about their investment by referring to numerous alleged arrest warrants and criminal investigations at the expense of the creditor, thus creating the need to seek legal advice from him. He had chosen the form of a \u201clegal tip\u201d on a lawyers’ platform for this purpose.<\/p>\n

Since the lawyer, even after being informed of the illegality of his report, refused to issue a cease-and-desist declaration and even threatened to \u201cescalate\u201d the matter in any way whatsoever, an application for a temporary injunction was necessary, which the Hamburg Regional Court issued immediately (LG Hamburg, Beschluss v. 26.8.2016, Az.\u00a0312 O 397\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The decision of the LG Hamburg<\/h3>\n

The Regional Court followed the applicant’s argument that the defendant’s advertising was disparaging and misleading and therefore inadmissible.<\/p>\n

In the event of non-compliance, the lawyer faces a fine of up to EUR 250,000. The decision is not legally binding. The amount in dispute was set at \u20ac 50,000.00. (la)<\/p>\n[:]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[:de] Time and again we report on cases of unfair advertising by \u201cinvestor protection law firms\u201d or other media that are – actually or only ostensibly – committed to consumer protection. Most recently in June 2016 here. Playing on investors’ fears In a recent case, an \u201cinvestor protection lawyer\u201d has once again attempted to scare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19453,19455,19474],"tags":[20289,20294,20357],"class_list":["post-67769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-law-personal-rights","category-competition-law-antitrust-law","category-press-releases","tag-misleading-advertising","tag-temporary-injunction","tag-investor-protection-lawyer"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67771,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67769\/revisions\/67771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lhr-law.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}