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Nearly half of all French-speaking family court hearings will be suspended between now and 30 June, the Brussels court of first instance has announced, due to a shortage of court clerks.
An indefinite strike across Belgian prisons began on Monday as unions condemning overcrowding and a lack of solutions.
Overcrowding in Belgium's prisons has reached a record high, with unions warning that “such a situation leads to escalations”.
Belgian prison staff walked out on strike for 24 hours on Friday as part of a joint trade union front, citing overcrowding and "deplorable conditions" for prisoners.
Belgium’s biggest drugs-related trial in history is getting under way, with 125 defendants set to appear before the criminal courts beginning this week.
A massive backlog in the Brussels court system is pushing court dates years into the future.
Belgium has slipped two places in the World Justice Project’s report on the rule of law, making it one of the EU countries where the decline is the greatest.
Belgian postal service Bpost has been found to have massively overcharged the Belgian justice ministry for office rent, billing 12 times the agreed rate, in an administrative error that some MPs b
