The trial sessions in the judicial courts will now be recorded, in audio and video format, to eliminate the long hours that the court actors are subjected to dictating the evidence produced for the minutes.

The measure, according to Jornal Noticias, is part of the new Strategic Plan of the Courts launched a few days ago in the city of Maputo.

Its purpose is procedural economy, since the exercise of dictating the minutes is time-consuming, exhausting, and repetitive.

As the document indicates, quoted by the newspaper, if there is a need to consult the material on the record or to make any kind of comparison with the statements of the defendants and declarants, the Court, the Public Prosecutor's Office and the lawyers will use the audios and images recorded at the hearing and trial sessions.

With the installation of equipment to capture the progress of the trials, the courts will be able to count on a video-conferencing system to hear people enrolled to give testimony who are far away or unavailable to be present in the courtroom at the time of notification.

With this measure, the mechanisms of procedural celerity are ensured, that is, trials will not stop because the notified parties are absent.

In general, the plan places emphasis on strengthening the institutional capacity of the judicial courts in human and financial resources, respect for the law, as well as the rights and freedoms of citizens and the legal interests of the various bodies and entities with legal existence.

It should be noted that the new Strategic Plan for the Courts 2022-2026 succeeds the previous one, which was in effect for the period 2016-2020, whose implementation was negatively conditioned by several constraints, most notably the Covid-19 pandemic, natural disasters, and material and human resource limitations.