Courts gearing up to expand sittings with new plans to deal with the 'growing backlog of cases'

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Chief Justice Frank Clarke said the measures introduced will necessitate a change to work practices but this is 'the price which everyone has to pay for us being able to significantly increase our throughput but to do so in a safe fashion'.

File photo. Four Courts in Dublin. Image: Shutterstock/Krzysztof Skalny File photo. Four Courts in Dublin. Image: Shutterstock/Krzysztof Skalny MANY OF IRELAND’S courts will sit throughout the traditional summer vacation, as detailed planning is afoot to allow cases of all types to be heard from late August and September onwards.

He added that a “major effort ” is being made to ensure that the types of cases which have not been heard in recent months can return in the near future. He said today: “As the restrictions adopted by government have come to be loosened it has proved possible to increase the number of sittings across all of our courts. However, the level of business still remains significantly below that which can be conducted in normal times.

The District Court is on course to return to a full schedule dealing with urgent matters from 1 September. The Courts Service is actively seeking additional premises in an attempt to solve this problem. The judiciary and the Courts Service are very mindful of the fact that there is already a growing backlog of cases which were not capable of being heard during the more severe restrictions which were in place to date. We are considering all possible steps to minimise any further growth in that backlog.

 

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