This popular legislation handbook is designed as a source of first reference for practitioners and students of civil procedure. It contains the full text of the Acts and Rules (including the Constitutional Court Rules). Useful aids include tables of cases decided under the legislation, a subject index, and a periodic timetable indicating the periods prescribed by the Acts and Rules for various procedures. This revised edition reflects the law as at 8 February 2013 (including legislation update as at 15 February 2013).

• Supreme Court Act 59 of 1959, as amended

• Magistrates’ Courts Act 32 of 1944, as amended
  - NEW! Limits of jurisdiction in the matter of punishments amended with effect from 1 February 2013

• Uniform Rules of the Supreme Court as well as the Rules of the Supreme Court of Appeal and other divisions of the High Court

• The Rules Regulating the Conduct of the Proceedings of the Magistrates’ Courts of South Africa

• Extract from the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996

  - Chapter 8 — Courts and Administration of Justice

• An updated table of cases decided under the Acts and the Rules of Court

• A comprehensive subject index

• A periodic timetable giving quick information as to the periods prescribed by the Acts and Rules for various procedures

• Constitutional Court Rules

• NEW! Supplement containing rules amended with effect from 22 March 2013:
  Rules regulating the conduct of proceedings of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa; Several provincial and local divisions of the High Court; Magistrates' Courts of South Africa

• Legal practitioners

• Academics

• Students

• Judges and magistrates