Practice Directions, Forms & Statements

The Acting Judge President of the Land Claims Court replaced all previous practice directions with the following consolidated practice directions on 8 June 2012.

• Practice Directions 01-19 as amended
• Practice Directive 02/2019: Determination of Sittings of the Specific Courts
• Amendments:
  • Dated: 28 Oct 2021 [Practice Direction 03 & Direction 05]
  • Dated: 17 Sep 2019 [Practice Direction 05, Par 2.4]
  • Dated: 17 Sep 2019 [Practice Direction 03, Par 1.3 & 1.4]
  • Dated: 02 Aug 2016 [Practice Direction 04]

COVID-19 INFORMATION

• Emergency Measures - Directives on Operational Procedures for December Recess 2021, 06 Dec 2021
• COVID-19 directives for the first term of 2021, 15 Jan 2021
• Alert Level 1 Operational Procedures - Fourth Term 2020 , 5 Oct 2020
• Matters capable of Virtual Hearings during Covid-19 Lockdown, 27 Jul 2020
• Adjudication of cases during the Third Term of 2020, 07 Jul 2020
• Directive: Request for allocation of hearing dates, 21 May 2020
• Supplementary Directive in respect of court operations in the Land Claims Court during the extended COVID-19 National Lockdown, 30 Apr 2020
• Directive in respect of Access to the Land Claims Court during the period of Lockdown, 25 Mar 2020
• Directives issued by the Chief Justice regarding COVID-19, GG 43117, GoN 187, 20 Mar 2020
  
• Urgent Directive in respect of restricting access to the Land Claims Court in light of COIVD-19, 18 Mar 2020
  
• Directives issued by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng in terms of Section 8(3)(B) of the Superior Courts Act, 2013, 17 Mar 2020
  
• DPSA guidelines for the containment/management of the Corona virus (COVID 19) in the public service, 16 Mar 2020

Forms

• Form 01 Notice of motion for applications
  
  
• Form 02 Notice of motion for review proceedings
  
  
• Form 07 Notice of referral of case to arbitration
  
  
• Form 08 Notice of action
  
  
• Form 09 Document warning of importance of case and attached to notices by which cases are initiated
  
  
• Form 10 Notice of appearance
  
  
• Form 11 Notice to deliver answering affidavit/plea/response
  
  
• Form 12 Notice to member/office bearer
  
  
• Form 13 Discovery affidavit
  
  
• Form 14 Subpoena
  
  
• Form 15 Notice of request for Probation Officer's Report

All forms are in PDF eForm format and require Acrobat Reader to open and complete before printing, signing and submitting.

Statements

• Land Claims Court calls for cooperation of roleplayers in expediting Land Restitution Claims, 11 May 2021
  The Land Claims Court has initiated a project to expedite land restitution claims and is calling on all relevant parties involved in prosecuting land claims to participate in its project to efficiently and fairly bring outstanding claims to finality.