The development of e-technology at the pleading And pre-trial stage of civil procedure
| dc.contributor.author | Ferreira, Marius Salomon | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-17T12:49:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-17T12:49:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description | A Research Report Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Laws by Coursework and Research Report School of Law University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | South Africa has been lodged into embracing the e-platforms since the advent of the lockdown restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic. CaseLines, and later-on Court Online, have been introduced to the South African judicial adversarial system in the High Court Divisions in Gauteng. Since its inception, the Caselines and Court Online electronic platforms (e-platforms) have undergone numerous amendments to comply with traditional civil procedure. At the same time, the e-platforms are being used to change the civil procedure at the Gauteng Divisions. The purpose of this report is to critically analyse the CaseLines and Court Online e-platforms and the online civil procedure, through the applicable directives in place, as well as the current Rules of Court, in order to determine its effectiveness in South African civil procedure as well as its fairness in the current South African dispensation. The procedure at the High Court Gauteng Divisions is further compared to the procedure at the Labour Court and Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), who have both utilised the use of certain online procedures long before the introduction CaseLines and Court Online. The use of evidence on an online e-platform is critically discussed to determine whether it is in line with the current laws involving the admission of evidence in the South African judiciary. The online judicial system in South Africa is critically compared to the current online procedures in the United States of America and in the United Kingdom to determine whether any lessons can be taken from the foreign judiciaries in terms of online civil procedure. Lastly, the report will provide concluding remarks and recommendations to consider for the South African e-platform and online civil procedure. | |
| dc.description.submitter | MM2025 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ferreira, Marius Salomon. (2024). The development of e-technology at the pleading And pre-trial stage of civil procedure [Master’s dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WireDSpace. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/43536 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | © 2025 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | School of Law | |
| dc.subject | CaseLines | |
| dc.subject | E-TECHNOLOGY | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.subject.other | SDG-9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure | |
| dc.title | The development of e-technology at the pleading And pre-trial stage of civil procedure | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |