UNIFORM COURT RULES: INPUT SOUGHT ON PROPOSALS FOR REGULATING MAGISTRATES’ COURTS BAIL APPEALS

UNIFORM COURT RULES: INPUT SOUGHT ON PROPOSALS FOR REGULATING MAGISTRATES’ COURTS BAIL APPEALS

• 03 July 2024
• Justice & Constitutional Development
• SA Legal Academy

The Rules Board for Courts of Law has called for input by 30 August 2024 on two sets of proposed new uniform rules. Once finalised and in force, they will prescribe separate High Court procedures for dealing with:

• a Magistrates’ Courts bail appeal by the accused, and
• a Magistrates’ Courts bail appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions.

This is with the aim of promoting access to justice, enhancing its administration and providing for uniformity in applying the rules of court.

The intention is that the proposed new uniform rules should follow one regulating criminal appeals from Magistrates’ Courts.

• draft rules

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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