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When a person is arrested in South Africa, the question of bail is almost always urgent. Liberty is at stake, and every hour spent in ...

A “regular” bail application is the court-based application brought under section 60 of the Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 when an accused does not ...

One of the first questions families ask after an arrest is how much bail costs in South Africa. The honest answer is that there is ...

A defence lawyer represents a person accused of a crime, from the moment of arrest through to sentence and, where necessary, appeal. In South Africa ...

South African law divides almost every dispute into one of two branches: criminal law or civil law. The distinction matters because each branch follows its ...

Criminal law is the body of rules that defines what conduct counts as a crime in South Africa and sets out how the State may ...

A criminal history record is the formal entry that the South African Police Service keeps on a person once they have been convicted of a ...

Criminal justice is the framework of laws, institutions and practices that a society uses to maintain order, respond to crime, and protect the rights of ...

A criminal offence is the most serious category of legal wrong recognised in South African law. When someone commits a criminal offence, they have done ...