R152m earmarked for court tech system upgrades

R152m earmarked for court tech system upgrades

The Office of the Chief Justice has moved to improve court efficiency with the increased use of technology. (Image source: 123RF) The Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ) plans to up the digitising ante for the country’s courts, expanding the functions of its cloud-based Court Online system. To achieve this, the OCJ has allocated R66.6…

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Africa: Activity Report of the African Court On Human and Peoples’ Rights (Afchpr) – 1 January – 31 December 2025

Africa: Activity Report of the African Court On Human and Peoples’ Rights (Afchpr) – 1 January – 31 December 2025

The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Court) was established in terms of Article 1 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (hereinafter referred to as “the Protocol”), adopted on 9 June 1998, in Ouagadougou, Burkina…

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Gymnast Jordan Chiles granted appeal in Olympic bronze medal ruling; Swiss court to rehear case

Gymnast Jordan Chiles granted appeal in Olympic bronze medal ruling; Swiss court to rehear case

American gymnast Jordan Chiles has been granted an appeal in her efforts to reclaim the bronze medal on floor exercise that was stripped from her at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Switzerland’s supreme court said on Thursday its judges sent the “highly exceptional circumstances” of the bronze medal awarded in the women’s floor exercise back to the Court…

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Telecoms industry drags home affairs minister to court

Telecoms industry drags home affairs minister to court

ACT CEO Nomvuyiso Batyi Mobile industry lobby group the Association for Comms & Technology (ACT) has filed an application with the high court in Pretoria to have regulations introduced by home affairs minister Leon Schreiber, in which he hiked the fee for accessing the national population register database by as much as 6 500%, overturned. ACT…

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