Civil Courts Coping with Covid-19

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-94-6236-204-8
Verlag: Boom Eleven International

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm

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The unforeseen Covid-19 pandemic has propelled, and continues to propel, unprecedented transformations to civil proceedings and the landscape in which they operate. Courts have proven to be creative and innovative in their responses to the pandemic, and in their ability to implement digitisation of paperwork and remote hearings. This book contains a comparative study of how courts in 23 countries have coped with the pandemic, addressing selected innovations and adaptations to court proceedings, factors facilitating and impeding the digital leap, and new concerns that new technology and the pandemic engenders. The authors discuss the implications of digitisation, such as ensuring equal access to courts, novel issues concerning fair trial rights in remote proceedings, the role of alternative dispute resolution during the pandemic, and the roots of resistance to digitisation. Several contributions also address whether and how innovations during the pandemic may transform civil litigation in the future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krans, Bart

Nylund, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Allgemeines Verfahrens-, Zivilprozess- und Insolvenzrecht Zivilprozessrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Recht mehrerer Jurisdiktionen, Synopsen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Civil Courts Coping with Covid-19 – Exceptional Times, Normal Times, New Times? (Bart Krans and Anna Nylund); Responding to Covid-19 – Australian Civil Courts in 2020 (David Bamford); The Impact of Covid-19 on Civil Procedure in Belgium (Piet Taelman); Brazilian Precedents in Covid-19 – Supreme Court Matters? (Fredie Didier Jr., Hermes Zaneti Jr. and Ravi Peixoto); The ‘New Normal’ of Civil Procedure in Canada – Technological Efficiency over Proportionality and Accuracy of Outcomes (Catherine Piché); Civil Justice in China in the Covid-19 Period (Yulin Fu); Croatian Civil Justice v. Covid-19 – The Empire Strikes Back (Alan Uzelac); Digitalization of Danish Civil Justice – Perspectives from the Pandemic (Clement Salung Petersen); Developing the New Normal for English Civil Procedure Post Covid-19 (John Sorabji); Pandemic and Digitalization – The Situation in the Finnish Lower Courts (Laura Ervo); Covid-19 and French Civil Justice – What Future for Civil Hearings? (Frédérique Ferrand); Covid-19, Civil Justice 2020 and German Courts 2021? (Wolfgang Hau); Covid-19 and Civil Justice – News from the Italian Front (Elisabetta Silvestri); Impact of Covid-19 on Japanese Civil Justice (Shusuke Kakiuchi); Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Lithuanian Civil Justice (Vigita Vebraite); The Aftermath of the Covid-19 Pandemic in the Netherlands – Seizing the Digital Gains (Bart Krans); Covid-19 and Norwegian Civil Justice (Anna Nylund); Peruvian Judicial System during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Christian Delgado Suárez); Transformation of Polish Civil Procedure in Light of Covid-19 (Piotr Rylski); Singapore Civil Procedure and Covid-19 (Jeffrey Pinsler); Coping with an Outdated and Rigid Civil Procedure in the Era of Covid-19 – The Experience of Slovenia (Aleš Galic); Civil Justice after the Covid-19 Pandemic in Taiwan (Kuan-Ling Shen); The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Civil Procedure in Uruguay (Santiago Pereira Campos); Covid-19 and American Civil Litigation (Richard Marcus); Conclusions on Civil Courts Coping with Covid-19 (Anna Nylund and Bart Krans)

Über Autor(innen)

Bart Krans is full professor at Leiden University, the Netherlands, where he holds the chair of private law and civil procedure law. His main research areas are civil procedure law and contract law.

Anna Nylund is full professor of law at University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (jur.dr University of Helsinki). Her main research interests are national, comparative, and European civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution.