DE: OLG Stuttgart confirms legitimacy of an identifying report related to the "Panama Papers"
by Tobias Raab
On 8 March 2017, the Higher Regional Court (Oberlandesgericht, OLG) of Stuttgart decided that an article about the so called "Panama Papers", which had been published by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2016, was permissible (Case no. 4 U 166/16).
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In the present case, the newspaper had published an article titled "The Phantom" on 5 April 2016, both in its print edition and on its website. The article did not only deal with the Panama Papers themselves - which are information and data on offshore companies that had been founded and organised by a law firm…
