Lexis®Library update: HMCTS has announced that during the national lockdown, the justice system is to remain open ‘as an essential public service’ and that courts and tribunals are to ‘continue to operate within the national restrictions in England, alert levels in Wales and protection levels in Scotland’.
HMCTS also confirms that ‘those essential to keeping the justice system running are considered critical workers’ and that ‘this applies to all those who work in courts and tribunals, as well as jurors and public court users, who are permitted to attend their place of work when necessary, to travel, to stay overnight in accommodation’.
Finally, HMCTS has stated that the new variant of the coronavirus, and the ease at which it spreads, requires that existing mitigation measures be ‘rigorously adhered to’.
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