LABOUR COURT AND APPEAL COURT RULES TO BE REPLACED

LABOUR COURT AND APPEAL COURT RULES TO BE REPLACED

• 03 May 2024
• Labour Law
• SA Legal Academy

Please note: On 12 July 2024, the minutes of May 2024 meeting of the Rules Board of the Labour & Labour Appeal Courts were gazetted announcing (in their final paragraph) that the new rules will come into effect on 17 July 2024.

The Office of the Chief Justice has published rules to regulate the conduct of proceedings in the Labour Court and the Labour Appeal Court.

Gazetted as addenda to minutes of a 20 November 2023 meeting of the Rules Board of the Labour & Labour Appeal Courts, the two new sets of rules will eventually replace all those previously applicable. The new Labour Court Rules will also replace a practice manual in effect since 1 April 2013.

According to the commencement section in each document, both sets of rules will only become operational on a date to be published in the Government Gazette.

However, the 20 November 2023 minutes note, among other things, that it was agreed by unanimous vote that each set:

• should be published in the Government Gazette, and
• ‘shall come into effect on the date as indicated in the Rules’.

Clarity is needed.

• new Labour Appeal Court Rules (with Rules Board meeting minutes)
• new Labour Court Rules

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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