COURT RULES: LATEST AMENDMENTS GAZETTED

COURT RULES: LATEST AMENDMENTS GAZETTED

• 30 May 2025
• Courts
• SA Legal Academy

On behalf of the Rules Board for Courts of Law, the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development has gazetted two sets of amendments to rules affecting Magistrates’ Courts and one set affecting provincial and local divisions of the High Court. Effective from 4 July 2025, they are as follows:

• amendments to the Magistrates’ Courts rules, with implications for:
  • expert witnesses
  • applications brought ex parte
  • document copying, and
  • intermediaries’ fees/travel allowances/other expenses
• amendments to the Magistrates’ Courts rules, with implications for:
  • notices served by defendants and opposers, and
  • mediation fees
• amendments to High Court rules, with implications for:
  • disputes to be referred for mediation
  • mediation fees
  • intermediaries fees/travel allowances/other expenses
  • attorneys’ fees for drawing up certain documents, and
  • document copying.

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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