Germany: Supreme Court allows animal activists’ website to call for fur farm bank boycott due to freedom of expression
Katrin Welker The German Supreme Court Bundesgerichtshof (BGH) has decided that a request to terminate the bank account of an interest group of fur farmers addressed to that group’s bank can be considered a legal call for boycott (AZ: VI ZR 302/15, 19 January 2016).
An animal rights association published an article on its website addressed to the bank of an interest group which represents fur farmers. In its article, the animal rights group asked the bank to terminate the bank account of group. The article was accompanied by representations of the housing conditions of animals. The association of fur…
