The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development has gazetted new rules regulating matters submitted to the small claims courts in South Africa.
Small claims courts offer a quicker and easier way of resolving certain civil disputes that involve amounts up to R20,000 in the country.
Because the small claims court often deals with laymen in the legal processes, more leeway is given in the rules. This includes not having errors and misspellings with dates and figures invalidate claims, and not having default judgements against parties where certain rules aren’t complied with. The fees charged in the execution of court duties are also lower than one would expect from legal proceedings and billed to the mandator of the claim.
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