The Hamburg court hearing, a landmark mis-selling case against Hamburger Sparkasse (Haspa), has reopened the evidence-gathering process after the bank submitted new information to the court. The verdict, originally expected on 12 May, is supposed to signal the outcome of other alleged mis-selling cases following Lehman's collapse. It is the first to take into consideration the decision by the German federal court of justice to ban secret margin payments from issuers to distributors of financial
