First published 30th January, 2001
LAW 1/2000 OF CIVIL PROCEDURE of 7TH JANUARY
The new Law of Civil Procedure ("LCP") entered into force on 8th January, 2001 replacing the previous Law of Civil Procedure of 1881. The principal motive behind the enactment of the new law is to try and ameliorate the serious problems resulting from the lengthy delays affecting legal proceedings. The underlying emphasis in the new law is on agility, oral hearings, immediacy and a reduction in the classes of proceedings themselves. Inevitably all this implies that the advocate will have to spend more time on each case as well as giving it more direct personal attention.
The principal differences between the old and the new proceedings are:
