To the High Judicial Council      Create additional court sections in particularly overloaded courts; Encourage productivity of judges and court officials by ensuring adequate working conditions and salaries, while at the same time demanding a minimum of daily working hours; ensure that overtime work is adequately remunerated; Establish a clear binding system for establishing court schedules, with case sequence and exact timing; Ensure that all courtrooms have adequate space and sound clarity; Replace the current system of servicing court documents with an electronic system, already successfully implemented in other Arab countries. To First Instance Court judges        Optimize court working hours by starting trial hearings on time; Increase the daily time devoted to trial hearings to no less than five hours per day; Ensure the timely transfer of detainees to court, including by reinforcing cooperation mechanisms between the court registry and the prison administration; Avoid postponing trials for periods longer than three weeks; Set up a shared electronic court calendar with lawyers so as to avoid overlapping events and so that lawyers receive reminders prior to the hearings; Take all torture and ill-treatment claims with utmost seriousness. Ensure that complaints are duly recorded in the trial minutes and refer the case file for further investigation and prosecution. Demand that the prosecution provides verifiable evidence when requesting the detention of the defendant; reject arrest requests that are not backed with an investigation file. 10

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