1. Legal Aid SA's presentation of its strategic and annual performance plan has, as ever, greatly impressed the Committee. It congratulates Legal Aid SA's on the role it played in the process of drafting the United Nation's principles and guidelines in providing legal aid assistance in criminal matters. Legal Aid SA's leadership, governance and institutional arrangements and method of work are laudable and, in the Committee's view, should be drawn upon as best practice within the Cluster. The Committee, however, would have liked to have greater insight of Legal Aid South Africa's work by undertaking oversight 'on the ground' but fears that this may not be possible in the time remaining to it before the end of the Fourth Parliament.