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Justice and Correctional Services
Public Protector, SA Human Rights Commission, Legal Aid SA on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
19 Oct 2016
Office of the Public Protector
The new Public Protector was present for the Office of the Public Protector (OPP) Annual Report briefing. The OPP witnessed a surplus of R17 million, an improvement on last year’s surplus. Total expenditure was R237 million out of the budget of R246 ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Office of Chief Justice on its 2015/16 Annual Report and 1 Quarter 2016/17 performance
18 Oct 2016
The Office of the Chief Justice briefed the Committee on its maiden year which was the first year of a separate budget vote after its administration was separated from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Superior Courts were transferred to it. OCJ’s achievements and challenges were ...
Justice and Correctional Services
National Prosecuting Authority on its 2015/16 Annual Report
12 Oct 2016
The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Shaun Abrahams, raised a point of objection to the presence of Ms Breytenbach in the meeting stating that she should not be part of that meeting because she is currently accused in a criminal matter. Ms Breytenbach replied that fortunately ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on its 2015/16 Annual Report; Departmental First Quarter Performance Report
12 Oct 2016
The Committee met to receive a briefing from the the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development on its 2015/16 Annual Report.
Prior to the briefing, the Department gave a report back to the Committee on a number of issues it had raised previously. The Department informed MPs ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Department of Correctional Services & Judicial Inspectorate 2015/16 audit outcomes: Auditor-General briefing
11 Oct 2016
The Minister and Deputy Ministers of Justice and Correctional Services attended and briefed the Committee prior to annual performance reports being presented by the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development (DOJ), the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) and the Judicial Inspectorate of Correctional Services (JICS). .
The Minister, in his ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Shortlisting of candidates to be interviewed for appointment to the SA Human Rights Commission
5 Oct 2016
The Committee met to shortlist candidates to be interviewed for apointment to the South African Human Rights Commission. The Committee shortlisted 18 out of 80 of the applicants and agreed that the interviews would be held on 13 and 14 October 2016.
Justice and Correctional Services
SAHRC appointment process; Courts of Law Amendment Bill: Department responses to submissions
22 Sep 2016
List of 80 SAHRC nominations plus CVs
For the appointment process for commissioners to the South African Human Rights Commission, the Committee resolved to publish the list of 80 candidates until 30 September 2016 in order to ensure public scrutiny and possible objections. It agreed to shortlist 15-21 candidates by ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services impact: consultative meeting
21 Sep 2016
Stakeholders involved with prison reform were consulted on their views about the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services as an oversight mechanism and its impact. They expressed their frustration over the absence of tangible legislative reform to remedy weaknesses in JICS institutional setup. These weaknesses are JICS’s absence of investigative and ...
Justice and Correctional Services
Correctional Supervision and Parole: Successes, Challenges & Future Developments
20 Sep 2016
Lawyers for Human Rights (LFH), the Wits Justice Project (WJP), the Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative (CSPRI), the South African National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Reintegration of Offenders (NICRO), and the Judicial Inspectorate for Correctional Services (JICS) made submissions to the Committee on the administration of correctional supervision ...
Powers and Privileges of Parliament
Constitutional Court minority judgment & review of Act
14 Sep 2016
A Member who partakes in a disturbance in the precincts while Parliament or House or a Committee is meeting, can not be arrested or removed from the precincts.
This what the Ad Hoc Committee heard when it was briefed by Parliamentary Legal Advisers on the implications of the majority and ...