5. Dedicated sexual offence courts. The Committee is appalled at the low conviction rate for sexual offences and has expressed its view previously on this. It remains firmly of the view that sexual offence matters require specialist skills and, for this reason, it supports dedicated sexual offence courts. The trend, however, has been to 'mainstream' these courts. The Committee is informed that a Task Team on Sexual Offences Courts (consisting of representatives from the NPA, Regional Court judiciary; Judiciary; Justice Sector Strengthening Programme; LASA & Foundation for Human Rights) has been established to investigate the feasibility of re-introducing dedicated Sexual Offences Courts. Preliminary findings were to be available at the end of August 2012. The Committee requests that it is briefed, in writing, on the Task Team's progress in writing, by 22 November 2012. Further, that it is briefed on the Team's findings, once finalised, when these become available.