Translation of "Altfälle" in English

I've been going through Mathias' old cases and reaching out to people on the Res...

This includes reappraising old cases.

The decision will also apply to old cases.

Hence, only old cases until the ECJ's decision will be excluded from the scope of application.

We have an interest in resolving the old cases and shall do so together with the parliamentary administration.

In view of its failure to catch up on the backlog of old cases and to prevent new cases of fraud, I feel bound to ask the Commission why it is not seizing this opportunity to make a truly fresh start.

Since these are old cases, with correspondingly poor quality of the evidence, the analyzes will probably last even longer in order to rule out any traces of deception.

I should like to pick up on a point made by the chairman of the Committee on Budgetary Control because the question of why the list of old cases was not passed on was asked.

I take this to mean that it must clear up all the old cases without exception and - where necessary - must pass them to the courts.

There is no reason why the legislature should not be permitted to regulate disputed and unclear legal questions arising in unresolved old cases, as long as legitimate expectations are not frustrated.

The resistance from the German opposition in the Bundesrat prevented us from using this arrangement to detect all old cases and avoid the expiry of the statute of limitations for countless others.

At most, in light of the protection of legitimate expectations required under the rule of law (Art. 20 sec. 3 GG), it would have been conceivable to ask for a more differentiated statutory solution for old cases [such as hers] because she had been employed in the school system long before the provisions in question were promulgated and had disclosed her faith-based clothing practice at that time, and because of her long-standing teaching activity that had gone without objection with regard to the protected interests concerned.

Considering the convincing arguments which, from the beginning, spoke in favour of exactly that interpretation which the legislature then also confirmed explicitly, the retroactive extension of this regulation to the open old cases cannot be deemed to constitute a violation of the principle of the protection of legitimate expectations.

The First and Tenth Senate of the BFH have now, in two judgments dated 23 August 2017, file numbers I R 52/14 and X R 38/15, denied the further application of the restructuring decree to old cases which was granted on the basis of the letter of the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) dated 27 April 2017.

Nonetheless, the Senate holds that the legislature was not entitled to clarify this with retroactive effect for the unclear old cases and states that it was the task of the regular courts to decide on those cases.

In the course of this some older cases are also being re-opened, such as the recent one of a convert in Pforzheim, who had lived there for several years and who suddenly was to be deported to Pakistan, where the Islamistic mob is very eager to kill apostates, whereby it is all the same to them, whether the person concerned has only gone to church for years to feign a conversion or whether he really means it – in each case he can't be a Moslem any more, anyway.

The reason for the lack of a transitional regulation for debt relief (so-called old cases) until 8 February 2017 is that the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) had ordered the old legal situation to continue to apply by letter dated 27 April 2017 for reasons of legitimate expectations.