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Justice and Constitutional Development
Rehabilitation and reintegration programme challenges Correctional Services briefing
17 Sep 2014
The briefing by the Department of Correctional Services covered four critical areas in its presentation on the challenges it faced in delivering rehabilitation and reintegration programmes and services to inmates in South Africa’s correctional facilities. It dealt with the operational efforts regarding rehabilitation, the human resource constraints, the obstacles to ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
International and Regional Human Rights Obligations: SA's outstanding reports - input by SAHRC
12 Sep 2014
Commissioner Janet Love of the South African Human Rights Commission, briefed the Committee on the respective roles of the Committee and the Commission regarding international instruments generally and the reporting obligations which attach. She provided an overview of the international instruments under both the United Nations and African Union systems ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Legal Aid South Africa Bill [B8B-2104]: voting; Attorneys Amendment Bill [B9-2104]: deliberations; Suspension of magistrates
10 Sep 2014
The Department of Justice and Correctional Services presented the Portfolio Committee final proposed amendments to the Legal Aid Bill as per the B-Version of the Bill [B8B-2014]. The Chairperson proposed amending the short title of the Bill to the Legal Aid South Africa Bill, as it reflects the Bill’s focus ...
Ad Hoc Committee - President's Submission in response to Public Protector's Report on Nkandla
President's Response to Public Protector: Election of Chairperson
9 Sep 2014
Mr S Tshabalala, Committee Section Manager, noted that he was sitting as representative of the Secretary of Parliament to facilitate the appointment of a Chairperson for the Committee, and called for nominations. The ANC nominated Mr Cedric Frolick (ANC), but the opposition parties felt that at this stage the terms ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Attorneys Amendment Bill [B9-2014]: deliberations
9 Sep 2014
The Department took the Committee through its drafting of amendments proposed at the 29 July and 27 August 2014 committee meetings. These included a redefinition of ‘court ‘to indicate that all divisions of the high court and local seats thereof are included in the definition. This would allow candidate attorneys ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Impact of Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal Judgments on SA law and jurisprudence
5 Sep 2014
The Department lead the Committee through the presentation which detailed the basic information surrounding the Constitutional Justice Project, which was cast as an assessment of the impact of jurisprudence rather than a review of these judgements. This initiative was started by Cabinet in November 2011 and rested on two fundamental ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Attorneys Amendment Bill [B9-2014]: public hearings
27 Aug 2014
The Attorneys Fidelity Fund submission referred to clause 16 of the Attorneys Amendment Bill which seeks to give the Law Societies the power to allow the use of a name which does not include the names of present or past members of a practice. This raised concerns regarding the exploitation ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Insolvency Practitioners: Appointment Policy
22 Aug 2014
The Chief Master of the High Court presented the Department of Justice and Correctional Services Policy on the Appointment of Insolvency Practitioners which was focused on promoting equality, transparency and fairness in the insolvency industry, aiming for transformation. He detailed the previous system of appointments called the requisition system, which ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Duplication in Functions of Institutions Supporting Democracy: input by Commission for Gender Equality; South African Human Rights Commission; Public Protector; Public Service Commission
19 Aug 2014
Four Chapter Nine institutions supporting constitutional democracy - the Commission for Gender Equality, the South African Human Rights Commission, the Public Protector and the Public Service Commission- were called to present on the subject of overlapping mandates, which had been identified during the process leading up to the budget vote. ...
Justice and Constitutional Development
Legal Aid Bill [B8-2014]; Attorney's Amendment Bill [B9-2014]: briefing by Deputy Minister
29 Jul 2014
The Legal Aid Bill came as a post Constitution replacement of the 1969 Act. Some amendments had already been inserted into the 1969 Act particularly pertaining to the recovery of fees and the criteria determining provision of Legal Aid services as there had been many court challenges on that issue. ...