The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted court operations, as some courts have had to temporarily shut down; postpone legal matters and only entertain urgent matters; and work with skeletal staff as the majority of staff are required to work from home. In some jurisdictions, the judiciaries lost some of their workers and judicial officers to the virus. In those jurisdictions where the courts are gradually resuming operations, judicial officers are inundated with huge case backlog. In this policy brief, AJJF identifies and proposes recommendations aimed at strengthening some of these measures. These recommendations are enumerated in the last section of this paper
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