RULES OF COURT: INPUT SOUGHT ON SIX AMENDMENT PROPOSALS

RULES OF COURT: INPUT SOUGHT ON SIX AMENDMENT PROPOSALS

• 15 December 2025
• Courts
• SA Legal Academy

On behalf of the Rules Board for Courts of Law, the Department of Justice & Constitutional Development has released six draft amendments to rules affecting court proceedings – calling for public comments by 27 February 2026.

The following changes are proposed for the Supreme Court Rules (notice  and draft amendments):

• the introduction of tariff items for scanning and uploading documents to an online court portal (in line with the Uniform Court Rules)
• the repeal of Rule 19 (court fees)

Proposed changes to the Uniform Court Rules:

• clarifying the scope of rules on (notice and draft amendments):
  • costs granted on the attorney-client scale
  • costs awarded de bonis propriis, and
  • disbursements
• adding the option of publishing the notice of sale in execution of immovable property in an electronic news publication (notice and draft amendments)
• clarifying the performance of activities required to register a matter on an online court portal, along with the fee charged (notice and draft amendments)
• further regulating service of process at an access-controlled address (based on three tiers of access control) (notice  and draft amendments)

Proposed changes to the Magistrates’ Courts rules:

• adding the option of publishing the notice of sale in execution of immovable property in an electronic news publication (notice and draft amendments)
• consolidating the tariffs for attending a court hearing in the context of the number of creditors involved (notice and draft amendments)
• clarifying the performance of activities required to register a matter on an online court portal, along with the fee charged (notice and draft amendments)
• further regulating service of process at an access-controlled address (based on three tiers of access control) (notice  and draft amendments)

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