New courtroom instances in Cyprus will probably be filed electronically as an alternative of in bodily kind as of Tuesday, February 1.
This is applicable to all courts, besides the Worldwide Administrative Safety Courtroom and courts exercising prison jurisdiction, together with the prison courtroom, navy courtroom and the supreme courtroom.
An official announcement defined that instances which had been registered electronically on or earlier than December 31, 2021, through which a doc was subsequently registered in bodily kind, can proceed both in bodily kind or, ideally, electronically.
It added instances which had been or will probably be registered in bodily kind by January 31, 2022, will proceed solely in that kind.
Digitisation is a part of a raft of payments submitted by the state in an effort to reform the island’s notoriously gradual justice system.