Tunis: President of the Tunisian Bar Association, Hatem Mziou, has called on the Ministry of Justice to honour its commitments and immediately launch and expand the use of distance justice. He insisted on digitising the sector and ensuring fair access to justice. Speaking on Sunday on the sidelines of the scientific symposium on access to justice in Tabarka (Jendouba), organised by the Jendouba regional section of the Bar Association in partnership with the Tunis and Kasserine sections, Hatem Mziou stressed that justice is an essential vector for development and investment and that the right of access to justice is a duty that the state must guarantee to all litigants. In a statement to TAP, the President of the Bar Association pointed out that e-Justice is one of the strongest guarantees of access to justice, which requires a political will capable of making it a reality, especially as the Ministry and the structures of the profession have completed the logistical and technical preparations necessary for i ts implementation. The academic Daoud Yacoub, who took part in the meeting, noted that the State is called upon to provide an accessible judicial service, pointing out that Tunisian litigants are today frustrated by the complexity of the procedures that prevent them from fully benefiting from their rights in this regard. In his view, the failure to guarantee fair access to justice has serious economic consequences for social peace. And for good reason: the campaigns to demonise the judiciary, waged by both the executive and the opposition since 2011, have undermined confidence in the sector and encouraged citizens to take the law into their own hands. The academic described this phenomenon as worrying and called for a national debate to put an end to this trend. Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse
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