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Magistrates Court User Survey 2023

Key findings of the DGRU’s South African Magistracy’s Court Users Survey Report 2023.

Magistrates’ Perceptions Survey 2022

Key findings of South African Magistracy’s perceptions of their working environment survey 2022/3.

Magistrates Matter: Turning the light to shine on the magistracy

The judicial system in South Africa comprises of the following courts of law: the Constitutional Court; the Supreme Court of Appeal; the High Courts, the Magistrates’ Courts; and any other court established by legislation (such as the Labour Court). In her thesis on the transformation of the South African magistracy published in 2007, Vanja Karth […]

Response to ‘a bridge too far’

Last week Judges Matter wrote an article, a bridge too far, which discussed the ideals for transformation on the bench. In response to our article Leon Dicker, a retired advocate and member of the Pretoria Bar, arbitrator, former magistrate, lecturer and trainer of magistrates at Justice College, wrote this comment; A well written article on […]

The use of indigenous languages in the courts

When you are in a court in which the judge, the prosecutor, the accused, and the defence lawyer all speak isiXhosa, why should the proceedings be English? There are several answers to this, which are put forward in judgments and at the Judicial Service Commission, but they ring increasingly hollow. The main argument is that […]

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Magistrates Court User Survey 2023

Magistrates’ Perceptions Survey 2022

Magistrates Matter: Turning the light to shine on the magistracy

Response to ‘a bridge too far’

The use of indigenous languages in the courts