COURTS HAVE TO MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING

  • 28/10/2020

Ministry of Health had addressed the Supreme Judicial Council in April about the possibility of holding sessions in the courts only if social distancing and other such measures are strictly implement in the corridors, and inside and outside the courts’ halls. A loca daily reported that  the scenes of crowding and congestion in the corridors and halls of the Justice Palace which were hard to miss, especially on the fourth and sixth floors where criminal trial sessions are held on a daily basis.

Although the services department in the courts sector provides sterilization and sanitization tools near some halls, these efforts lack the litigants’ demand to achieve health requirements and spacing, and the obligation of some litigants to wear medical masks designated for this, in addition to the absence of employees responsible for security and safety measures in the court corridors, which daily witness a number of COVID-19 cases among its employees.

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