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DEPARTMENT: JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION NO.: 2210
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13 NOVEMBER 2009
2210. Mr J H van der Merwe (IFP) to ask the Minister of Justice and
Constitutional
Development:
(1) How many judges of the high courts have fulltime researchers
allocated to them;
(2) whether he intends to introduce the positions of researchers for
all judges; if not, why
not; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) whether he will make a statement on the matter?
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Reply:-
1) 24 Judges of the High Courts have fulltime researchers allocated
to them.
(2) The Department is in the process of investigating the capacity
needs, including that of the positions of fulltime researches,
at the Constitutional Court and all the High Courts countrywide,
as part of the process of the transformation of the Judiciary
and the Courts.