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Justice and Correctional Services
Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill: Department response to submissions
15 Mar 2017
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (the Department) responded to issues raised by stakeholders on the Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill (the Bill). Briefly, this Bill was intended to cater for the Constitutional Court judgment in the De Vos case. The amendments aimed to provide the courts with a wider ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Constitutional Court & Supreme Court of Appeal jurisprudence assessment
14 Mar 2017
The Department presented a progress report on a survey on the impact of the Constitutional Court and Supreme Court of Appeal on the transformation agenda and how the decisions of the courts impacted the lives of citizens. It was not an assessment of the merits of the courts’ decisions but ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Bail policy & minimum sentencing legislation on inmate population; Suspension of magistrates
8 Mar 2017
Inmate population in South African prisons has over the last fifty years increased by 114.06%.
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services heard this during a joint presentation by the Department of Correctional Services, Judiciary, SAPS, NPA, and Legal Aid SA.
It was reported that factors that play a ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Pilot projects on community courts & legislation to regulate paralegals: progress report
7 Mar 2017
Prior to the main agenda items, Members debated whether to accept an invitation from the Magistrates Commission for the Committee to visit the Commission in Pretoria. There was discussion whether this invitation was due to recent media reports about possible tension between the Committee and the Commission or if it ...
Justice and Correctional Services
“Esidimeni” Complaint: SAHRC briefing
22 Feb 2017
The meeting was convened due to the more than 94 psychiatric patient deaths after their transfer from Life Esidimeni. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) appeared before the Committee to explain the Commission’s involvement in the matter, detailing the correspondence it had with the Gauteng Department of Health and ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Suspension of magistrates: Magistrates Commission briefing; Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill: DoJ&CD briefing
15 Feb 2017
A delegation from the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development presented the Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill to the committee. The delegation apologised for the delay in getting the bill to parliament and noted that the deadline was fast approaching.
The Department explained that the proposed bill gives effect to two ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Child Justice Act section 97 regulations: briefing
14 Feb 2017
The Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services was briefed by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on the amendments to the Regulations relating to the Child Justice Act.
Certain sections of the Act, including sections 11, 28, 43, 56, 75, 77, 85 and 97 were amended by the ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Halfway houses; rehabilitation & reintegration of parolees / ex-offenders: Correctional Services status report
1 Feb 2017
The National Commissioner of Correctional Services briefed the Committee on the court order that required the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) to develop a plan to address overcrowding, which will be monitored until 31 May 2017, by which time the correctional centre populations must have reduced overall to manageable totals ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Traditional Courts Bill; Implementation of Rome Statute of International Criminal Court Act Repeal Bill: briefing with Minister and Deputy Minister
31 Jan 2017
The Deputy Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development highlighted that there were many improvements to the Traditional Courts Bill following concerns with previous versions of the Bill. The main objective of the Bill was to create a uniform legislative framework to regulate the role and functions of traditional courts. Since ...
Constitutional Review Committee
Parliamentary Legal Advisors on 2015 public submissions
25 Nov 2016
The Committee Content Advisor firstly briefed the Committee on the submissions that had been sent to the Committee in the 2015 and 2016 years. She noted that she had broadly divided them into three categories, which were not cast in stone but might help Members to categorise. For those that ...