« French Civil Justice during Corona Times », p. 23-28 in Bart Krans, Anna Nylund, David Bamford, Laura Ervo, Frédérique Ferrand, Aleš Galič, Wolfgang Hau, Jordi Nieva,Fenoll, Clement Salung Petersen, Catherine Piché, Piotr Rylski, Elisabetta Silvestri, John Sorabji, Vigita Vėbraitė, and Hermes Zaneti jr., Civil Justice and Covid-19. https://doi.org/10.7557/sr.2020.5

International audience The landscape of civil justice has changed rapidly in very short time. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has an impact on civil cases on a global scale that could be characterised as unprecedented. Numerous countries across the globe are facing the question how to enable cou...

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Main Author: Ferrand, Frédérique
Other Authors: Équipe de droit international, européen et comparé (EDIEC), Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (UJML), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2020
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Online Access:https://hal-univ-lyon3.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02554791
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Summary:International audience The landscape of civil justice has changed rapidly in very short time. The Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has an impact on civil cases on a global scale that could be characterised as unprecedented. Numerous countries across the globe are facing the question how to enable courts to cope with civil cases in these strange times. Do courts proceed as usual? If not, which cases are dealt with, and how? And perhaps: will the current situation teach us something for the post-pandemic period (which we are all hoping for)?