JUDICIAL MATTERS AMENDMENT BILL READY FOR NEXT LEG OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS

JUDICIAL MATTERS AMENDMENT BILL READY FOR NEXT LEG OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCESS

• 13 September 2023
• Parliament
• SA Legal Academy

A ‘B’ version of the Judicial Matters Amendment Bill could soon be heading to the NCOP for concurrence. Proposing mostly ‘practical’, ‘technical’ and ‘non-contentious’ amendments to a raft of legislation (memorandum on its objects), the Bill includes provisions expected to assist in ‘clear(ing) the names of those who earned criminal records after having paid admission of guilt fines for breaching Covid-19 lockdown regulations’.

This is according to a National Assembly Justice & Correctional Services Committee report tabled in the House on 12 September 2023. Once passed, enacted and in force, the new piece of legislation will also ‘repeal the common law crime of defamation’ without affecting civil liability.

Although the Bill’s ‘B’ version is not yet available, two documents featuring changes considered by the committee are:

• draft amendments
• draft working document
• Bill (as tabled)
• parliamentary papers (page 4)

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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