The peculiar context of the pandemic and related restrictions raises the issue of the continuity of judicial services, of the rights of litigants and of procedural foreseeability. As a response to these questions, a draft bill was presented to the Senate, on the evening of 18 March 2020, regarding a proposed “Emergency Law No. 376 to address the Covid-19 epidemic”. The authorities are contemplating two sets of initiatives in this context: a moratorium on procedural deadlines, appeal periods and statutes of limitations (1) and maintaining civil and commercial judicial services for urgent matters (2).
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