1. The State Legal Services programme aims to provide legal and legislative services to organs of state, supervise the administration of deceased and insolvent estates, as well as the liquidation of juristic persons, registration of trusts and management of the Guardians' fund. It also prepares and promotes legislation, conducts research and promotes constitutional democracy. It is the smallest of the Department's three programmes, receiving R852 million (or 9.3%) of the allocation to programmes. The programme grows in real terms by 2.79% when compared to 2012/13. 2. The major spending area for the programme is the Masters of the High Court sub-programme, which receives R382.7 million or 45% of the programme's budget for 2013/14.