This is a third-party legal-journal article, not a Premonition publication. It was originally published in GRUR-Prax 2017, 34, a German practice journal covering intellectual-property and competition law, and is written in German by Rechtsanwalt Thorsten Klinger and Nico Kuhlmann, both attorneys at Hogan Lovells International LLP in Hamburg.
The article examines rating portals — online platforms that let people rate service providers, a category the authors note extends beyond businesses to include teachers and judges. It acknowledges that these portals serve a socially useful transparency function, while also drawing frequent criticism over unfair reviews, false claims, and insults posted about the people being rated. The core of the piece lays out the legal options available to someone who has been rated: what avenues exist to challenge or remove a specific entry.
Its inclusion here reflects the same underlying subject — public, data-driven evaluation of professionals — that runs through Premonition's own reports, even though the analysis and legal argument are the authors' own, published independently in a German legal trade journal.
