PRACTICE MANUAL OF THE SOUTH GAUTENG HIGH COURT

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Chapter 1	Application of The Practice Manual		5
Chapter 2	Court Terms		6
Chapter 3	Court Recess		7
Chapter 4	Counsel’s Dress		8
Chapter 5	Court Sittings		9
Chapter 6	Civil Trials		10
	6.1	Allocation of Civil Trials	11
	6.2	Bundles of Documents	12
	6.3	Case Management	13
	6.4	Closure of The Trial Roll	14
	6.5	Expert Witnesses	15
	6.6	General	16
	6.7	Hearing Duration	17
	6.8	Pagination, Indexing, Binding and General Preparation of Papers	18
	6.9	Part-Heard Trials	19
	6.10	Practice Note for Trials	20
	6.11	Preferential Trial Date	21
	6.12	Pre-Trial Conference	22
	6.13	Roll Call	24
	6.14	Settlement Agreements and Draft Orders	25
Chapter 7	Civil Appeals		26
Chapter 8	Criminal Matters		28
	8.1	Petitions From The Lower Court	29
	8.2	Appeals	30
	8.3	Automatic Review	31
	8.4	Bail Appeals	32
	8.5	Reviews	33
	8.6	Trials	34
Chapter 9	Motion Court		35
	9.1	Allocation of Courts	36
	9.2	Index	39
	9.3	Binding of Papers	40
	9.4	Pagination	41
	9.5	Briefing of Counsel	42
	9.6	Calling of The Roll of Unopposed Matters in Courts 2 and 3	43
	9.7	Closure of The Motion Court Roll	45
	9.8	Concise Heads of Argument	46
	9.9	Enrolment	47
		Annexure A (a specimen J118 form)	49
	9.10	Enrolment of Application After Notice of Intention To Oppose Given	50
	9.11	Errors on The Unopposed Roll	51
	9.12	Hearing of Opposed Matters	52
	9.13	Long Duration	55
	9.14	Matters Not On The Roll	56
	9.15	Postponements	57
	9.16	Practice Note	58
	9.17	Preparation of Papers	59
	9.18	Service	60
	9.19	Settlement	61
	9.20	Settlement Agreements and Draft Orders	62
	9.21	Stale Service	63
	9.22	Striking From The Roll	64
	9.23	Supplementary Roll	65
	9.24	Urgent Applications	66
Chapter 10	Particular Applications		70
	10.1	Anton Piller Type Orders	71
	10.2	Admission of Advocates	77
	10.3	Cancellation of Sale In Execution	78
	10.4	Change To The Matrimonial Regime	79
		Annexure A	80
	10.5	Compromise In Terms of Section 311 of The Companies Act 61 of 1973	81
	10.6	Curator Bonis	84
	10.7	Curator Ad Litem	85
	10.8	Enquiries In Terms of Section 417 of The Companies Act 61 of 1973	86
	10.9	Eviction In Terms of The Prevention of Illegal Evictions and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act, 19 of 1998	87
	10.10	Liquidation	88
	10.11	Provisional Sentence	89
	10.12	Rehabilitation	90
	10.13	Removal or Amendment of Restrictions on Land Use	91
	10.14	Sequestration	92
Chapter 11	Leave To Appeal in Civil Matters		94
Chapter 12	Unopposed Divorce Action		96
Chapter 13	Judge in Chambers		98
Chapter 14	Judges' Clerks		99
Chapter 15	Opening of Court Files		100
Chapter 16	Standard Order		101
	16.1	Default Judgment Granted by the Registrar	103
	16.2	Summary Judgment	104
	16.3	Provisional Sentence	105
	16.4	Default Judgment by Court	106
	16.5	Absolution from the Instance	107
	16.6	Edictal Citation	108
	16.7	Substituted Service	109
	16.8	Rule 43	110
	16.9	Divorce With Settlement Agreement	111
	16.10	Divorce Without Settlement Agreement	112
	16.11	Post Nuptial Registration of a Contract	113
	16.12	General Order for Discovery	114
	16.13	Agreement of Settlement	115
	16.14	Rule Nisi	116
	16.15	Restrictive Conditions on Land	117
	16.16	Unallocated Order	118
	16.17	Provisional Sequestration	119
	16.18	Final Sequestration	120
	16.19	Rehabilitation	121
	16.20	Surrender	122
	16.21	Provisional Liquidation	123
	16.22	Final Liquidation	124
	16.23	Discharge of Provisional Sequestration or Liquidation	125
	16.24	Section 311	126
	16.25	Judicial Management	127
	16.26	Leave to Appeal	129
	16.27	Order on Appeal	130
	16.28	Order in Terms of Rule 39 (22)	131
	16.29	Admission of Translator	132
Chapter 17	Ushers		133
		Annexure Notice of Scheme Meeting	135
		Alphabetical Index	136

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