Ruth Rissing-van Saan
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Ruth Rissing-van Saan (born January 25, 1946 in Neuss) is a German lawyer and was chair judge at the Federal Court of Justice. She worked as a judge on probation at the district and the district court Bochum, she was appointed in 1975 as a judge for life.[1] In 1988, she was appointed judge at the Federal Court of Justice. In 2002, she took over the chairmanship of the 2nd Criminal Senate. Rissing-van Saan was awarded the Heinrich Pera Prize in December 2017 in Halle (Saale) for her decisive participation in the case-law that is groundbreaking for palliative medicine (judgment on the so-called "justified termination of treatment") (BGHSt 55, 191).[2]
References[]
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Ruth Rissing-van Saan". 2010.
- ^ Utler, Simone (2010-06-25). "BGH-Urteil zu Sterbehilfe: Recht revolutionär". Spiegel Online. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
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- 1946 births
- German judges
- German women judges
- Living people
- People from Neuss