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Justice and Correctional Services
SIU & OCJ Annual Report 2021/22; OCJ update on procurement irregularities
18 Oct 2022
Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development Annual Report 2021/22, with Deputy Minister
14 Oct 2022
Justice and Constitutional Development
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on its 2021/22 annual report.
Members heard that significant progress had been made on the re-organisation and re-design of the Department. The Minister for Public Service and Administration had finally concurred with the proposed ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Political Overview of Annual Reports; JICS & DCS Annual Report 2021/22, with Minister & Deputy Ministers
13 Oct 2022
The Minister of Justice and Correctional Services presented a political overview of the Departments and entities falling under the broader justice and correctional services umbrella
In addition, the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services and the Department of Correctional Services presented their 2021/22 annual reports.
Minister Lamola ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Justice & Correctional Services Portfolio Audit Outcomes; Legal Aid SA & Information Regulator Annual Report 2021/22
12 Oct 2022
The Office of the Auditor-General briefed the Committee on the audit comes of the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DoJ&CD) and entities.
Members heard that the DCS received an unqualified audit with findings and achieved ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: adoption; Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions; with Deputy Minister
21 Sep 2022
The Committee considered and adopted the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill in this virtual meeting and the accompanying report.
The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act, 1992, to repeal the Minister’s delegated plenary legislative powers to amend Schedules. The effect thereof ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: adoption; Drugs and Drug Trafficking Amendment Bill: public hearings & Department response
20 Sep 2022
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services considered and adopted the report on the Land Court Bill.
The purpose of the Bill is to provide for the establishment of a Land Court and a Land Court of Appeal, make provision for the administration and ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: finalisation of A-list
14 Sep 2022
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented the latest working document on the Land Court Bill. It included amendments to the following clauses: Clause 8, which dealt with the appointment of judges to the Land Court; and clause 17, which dealt with appeals.
With clause 8, an amendment ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: exclusion of public input from summary of submissions, with Deputy Minister
9 Sep 2022
The Committee was originally supposed to meet so that the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development could share its response to the submissions on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill. However, they were informed that several submissions were excluded from the summary that was ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill: Department response to submissions, with Deputy Minister
7 Sep 2022
In this virtual meeting, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development briefed the Committee on its response to the submissions received on the Prevention and Combating of Hate Crimes and Hate Speech Bill.
The Department also presented the latest working document of the Bill. The working document highlighted the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Land Court Bill: deliberations
6 Sep 2022
Land Court Bill – Working Document 4: 6 September 2022 (Awaited document)
In this virtual meeting, the legal advisors in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development took the Committee through the proposed amendments to the Land Court Bill.
It was proposed that Subclause 4, Clause 8, be moved ...