If there is one thing that is affecting the health and economy globally to a great extent presently, it is nothing but coronavirus. After originating in Wuhan, China, it has traveled all over the world, impacting nations and businesses worldwide, and the legal industry is no exception.
How To Coronavirus Has Affected In The Legal Industry
So, let’s get started and throw some light on the impact created by coronavirus on the legal sector through industry experts.
The outbreak of coronavirus has affected almost every business including the legal industry. With a particular cluster of infections, the law firms are continuing to shut down.
The law firms in China, USA, Hong Kong, Milan, London, and in far eastern territories are almost closed. Not only has this but the law schools are also closed as the pandemic spread globally seemed inevitable.
Even the courts of England and Wales are thinking to be well prepared to conduct most of the cases remotely during the epidemic coronavirus outbreak.
Considering the current situation, I have also closed my office and asked the employees to work from home.
We communicate via Zoom and discuss the ongoing projects and business goals.
Since the outbreak does not seem to end anytime soon, China has already declared that it’s Supreme People’s Court and the courts of every level will be mediating the cases through online systems.Extending the activity, China has promoted the mobile micro court in the majority of its provinces to help the local courts to conduct trials on the internet.
The establishment of online courts can be made possible in every country.
The witnesses can appear by video in many cases under special measures to protect vulnerable witnesses from intimidation.
However, this practice could challenge the jury to decide if someone is telling the truth or not. But the exercise will cover all the criminal as well as civil litigations and may go much better than expected for the initial development of online courts.
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