Malaysian Bar asks courts to let lawyers to extend deadlines due to Covid-19 shutdown
Thursday, 19 Mar 2020 06:36 PM MYTMalaysian Bar president Salim Bashir noted that the judiciary's March 17 directive said that e-filing or online filing of court documents should continue on as normal during the two-week shutdown nationwide. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
Salim said, however, that lawyers are facing great difficulty in complying with deadlines for e-filing of cause papers and other documents in court due to the movement control order. “Hence, the Malaysian Bar urgently calls on the Judiciary to reconsider matters pertaining to e-filing as contained in the directive, and requests the Judiciary to exercise discretion fairly and mercifully in entertaining abridgement of time applications after 31 March 2020, by taking into account the calamity facing large number of lawyers, who are unable to do e-filing of documents, notices and other ancillary applications within the required period of time under the law,” he said.
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