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Since the beginning of 2021 and as a follow-up of the events of last year, the food security situation in Western Africa is a mixed picture. Although COVID-19 infection rates remained low compared to global figures, the impact of the pandemic led to reduced economic growth stemming from national restrictions put in place to slow the spread of the virus.
On January 18, 2021, the Federal Court ( FC) issued its latest COVID-19 Practice Direction, which supersedes all its prior COVID-19 practice directions. The FC's facilities in Ontario and Quebec have been closed in light of the recent public health measures to combat the pandemic. The FC will continue its operations remotely in these two provinces until further notice. These measures in Ontario and Quebec are largely the same as were in place during earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also on January 18, 2021, the FC issued a new Practice Direction outlining its Document Retention Schedu...
Amendments to Family Procedure Rules Amendments to paragraph 1.4 and 11.1 of Practice Direction 36N, to add provision for a legal representative of a respondent to use the online system for contested financial remedy applications and remove references to Maintenance Pending Suit applications, came into force on 18 December 2020. The remainder of the amendments come into force on 11 January 2021. 1 February 2021: The introduction of new Practice Direction 41C to provide for a procedure by which, in specified circumstances, appeal proceedings in Family Division of the High Court may proceed ...
Legal move makes it easier for indigent prisoners to access bail An amendment to the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court’s (ECSE) civil procedures rules is making it easier for prisoners on remand who cannot afford legal representation, to apply for bail on their own behalf. Attorney-at-law Wendel Robinson told Observer that, under normal circumstances, a prisoner who is on remand pending the outcome of his or her matter, would be required to pay a lawyer between EC$2,500 and EC$3,500 to apply to the High Court for bail on their behalf, in addition to filing fees that are charged by the court.
By Staff Reporter ZIMBABWEAN lawyers Wednesday filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to compel government to exempt legal services from a ban imposed on non-essential services during the current national lockdown to minimise the spread of Covid-19. Government recently announced a 30-day national lockdown starting this past Tuesday. Under the measures, only essential services were not affected while both formal and informal businesses regarded as non-essential remain stagnant. But Obey Shava, a legal practitioner and the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe (YLAZ), the...