Are You Coping?
COVID-19 has hit the world a few weeks ago; in Malta it's been nearly 3 weeks since we all started working from home. The world has been thrown into utter confusion but do we join ranks? At Asteria, we decided to take our equipment home (to the extent we could), and work from our desks, particularly because we are a mix of vulnerable people, those who commute only using buses, and because therefore it makes more sense. Many law firms have shut their doors to clientele, to protect members and employees. The courts are closed anyway - acts cannot be filed except using the emergency procedure to open the court registry using extraordinary means. There are, underway, a number of discussions with the Chamber of Advocates that might enable proceedings to resume if they are urgent or if they can expediently be dealt with online (such as sittings of certain cases). This might cause trouble with prescription (time-barring) and the current legal notice that suspends all prescriptio...