“Where’s the old lady’s money?” on March 21st at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2
Vienna (OTS) – “Selected cases from criminal law, civil law and special administrative law” could also be called the “Am Schauplatzgericht” edition, which ORF 2 will show on Thursday, March 21, 2024, at 9:05 p.m. on ORF 2. Marianne Waldhäusl, Kristina Schmidt-Labenbacher and Patrick Hibler start with criminal law and gave the first question the title “Where is the old lady’s money?” When Ms. W. was appointed adult representative for her sister, who suffered from dementia, she discovered that “some things were wrong” in the bank accounts and safe. Around 800,000 euros have disappeared. Did a private customer advisor defraud the elderly bank customer? A criminal court examines the suspicion of serious fraud and theft.
Case two deals with a topic that people don’t like to talk about very much, but that has already been on many people’s minds (internally) during a long car journey. You have to go to the toilet. But there isn’t a toilet in sight anywhere. What to do? Do the thing on the side of the road, by the field, next to a tree, in a remote corner of a settlement? Can you do that, is it a criminal offense and if so, what law would you be violating? Mr. M. from Carinthia therefore contacted the editorial team. He was awaiting trial at the State Administrative Court at Salzamtstrasse 3 in Graz because he was in extreme distress while relieving himself at the end of a dead end street. The charge is “violation of decency.” Was Mr. M. punished?
Some cases in “At the Scene of Court” develop into small series. Because new problems always arise around a basic conflict. An entire settlement with eight families in Leutschach in southern Styria has felt terrorized by a single neighbor for years. He has narrowed the only access route to the settlement, the Höllerweg, with iron bars so that deliveries with trucks or wider vehicles are almost no longer possible. Rightly so, as the neighbor says, because according to an agreement made decades ago, the other residents are entitled to a maximum path width of 2.40 meters. Anyone who tried to bend the poles slightly to one side was charged with trespassing. Numerous proceedings have already been conducted and several attempts at mediation have failed. Is the conflict insoluble?