Emerging Diseases and Their Impact on Procedural Time Limits: The Possibility of Analogy with the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study aimed to measure what happened during the spread of the pandemic due to force majeure and its effects on procedural appointments to protect the rights of plaintiffs before the judiciary. This study seeks to determine the effects of these new epidemics on procedural appointments.

Whereas matters of the judiciary and the law are based on appointments and time commitment.

Since the outbreak of the Corona epidemic led to many difficulties, especially with regard to procedural deadlines in light of the Imposition of quarantine during the spread of this virus, this led to an Impact on all levels, especially the legal ones, and through this research it can be said that this pandemic Is considered a force majeure...

The Important question here is the possibility of measuring this pandemic or not against all emerging diseases that are announced by the global health system and whichh are considered among the variants of this virus. It can be said here that discretionary power is left to the competent authorities to estimate the availability of force majeure conditions or not and the possibility of measuring this pandemic. Therefore, the legal adjustment is left to the judge according to the facts presented before him and the extent to which the provisions of each of them (force majeure, emergency circumstances) apply to the incident.