“Paperwork in Belarusian!” launches a campaign for an extensive use of the Belarusian language in lawsuits
As a part of the nationwide campaign
"Let's do better!", the Civil Initiative "Paperwork in
Belarusian!" launched a campaign to extend the use of the
Belarusian language in civil court proceedings.
As stated by
the founder of the initiative "Paperwork in Belarusian!"
Ihar Sluchak, its activists decided to prepare some 40-50 sample
claims to courts within the next months and upload them to some
websites and social network for free usage.
"Every year
Belarusian citizens file about two millions of civil claims to the
Belarusian courts served about two million civil lawsuits, many of
which are of a technical nature and don't require a great juridical
knowledge. Previously, we received some criticism that we just
offered to expand the use of the Belarusian language in the paper
work but didn't create any Belarusian products, that's why we decided
to close this gap in our work," said the founder of the
initiative.
Mr. Sluchak lists the positive aspects of such a
company. For example, the psychological aspect is that when people
see that the documents can be composed in a good legal language, they
lose the complex that the Belarusian language can not be used in the
official business sector. Secondly, many lawsuits which are filed in
Belarus are of a purely technical nature, and anyone can compose them
if following our examples, even in the absence of juridical
education. with an example of making such a claim, can send e-mail
without having special legal education. This is a direct benefit,
because in such a case the people do not need to use the services of
specialists and pay for it.
The activist is sure that the
examples of the lawsuits in the Belarusian language will be in
demand, and will be filled mostly in Belarusian as they are composed
in it.
The sample lawsuits are accessible on the following
links: http://vk.com/belisk and
http://spravavodstva.ucoz.com/load
The activists also intend
to create a special website for them.
