Covid-19 exposes IT deficiency in German justice system
As the coronavirus forces businesses to ‘meet’ via video, many German courts and judges are still more comfortable with older (cheaper) paper
14 April 2020 - 12:22
Berlin — In late March, a Berlin judge told the people in his packed courtroom that it could take just 15 minutes for a single person with the coronavirus to infect them all.
For a group of lawyers and legal-technology firms in Germany it was a compelling moment: they wrote to state and federal justice ministers demanding an end to years of foot-dragging towards the roll out of digital justice...
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