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Court apologizes over yellow health code case dismissal
Published on: 2022-07-20
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A court in Shenzhen City in south China's Guangdong Province has suspended a judge and apologized to a lawyer for dismissing her case because she had a yellow health code.
 

The Guangming District People's Court in the city said in a statement on Sunday the quashing of the case was improper and the situation has since been corrected.
 

The lawyer, surnamed Song, works in an office building in Huangpu District in the provincial capital city of Guangzhou. The building was put under temporary COVID-19 lockdown from July 10. She got the yellow health code despite returning two negative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test results.
 

With a case to be heard in the Shenzhen court in the next two days, Song said she repeatedly called the court to apply for an online hearing but did not get any response.
 

On July 12, she drove all the way to the Shenzhen court from Guangzhou – a distance of about 150 kilometers – yet was barred from entering because of the yellow code. Her application for an online hearing was also denied and the court dismissed the case on grounds that the lawyer was absent.
 

律师“黄码”申请线上开庭遭拒,深圳市光明区法院道歉

律师因疫情防控原因被赋黄码之后无法进入法院大楼,申请线上开庭遭到法院方面拒绝,最后按撤诉处理。7月17日,深圳市光明区法院回应此事,暂停相关人员职务,并向律师道歉。
 

7月10日,因为疫情防控原因,广州市黄埔区某地被划定为临时管控区,一名宋姓女律师正好在该处办公,虽连续两天进行核酸检测都是阴性,但还是被赋了黄码。
 

7月12日,由于有民事案件需要在深圳开庭,宋律师多次尝试与深圳光明区人民法院联系,通过小程序留言,希望改为线上开庭,但并未得到明确回复。于是她在开庭当天从广州驾车前往深圳,到达法院楼下之后无法进入,申请线上开庭遭到拒绝,最终被按未到庭撤诉处理。
 

这一事件爆出之后,引发舆论关注。7月17日下午,深圳市光明区人民法院通过官方微博回应此事称,宋律师反映因“黄码”无法正常出庭参加诉讼,法院按撤诉处理确有不妥,现已依法予以纠正,已暂停相关人员职务,并向当事律师致歉。

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