22 June: Speakers: Justice Edwin Cameron, Venessa Padayachee, Thulani Ndlovu, Jean Redpath. The roundtable will kick off with a panel discussion among the speakers and be followed by questions and response from attendees.
20-21 June: Discussions will include developing national and regional litigation strategies and the implementation of the ACHPR Principles on the Decriminalisation of Petty Offences in Africa.
ACJR researchers present the results of a report on the State of Democratic Policing on behalf of the Civilian Secretariat for Policing.
ACJR has been invited to participate in the research reference group of South Africa's Civilian Secretariat on Police Services. The inaugural meeting in which the terms of reference will be finalised takes place in June.
Senior leadership of Malawi's groundbreaking paralegal organisation to enjoy training by ACJR on corporate governance, project management, monitoring and evaluation, fundraising and legal research.
Pursuant to research conducted by ACJR on the state of democratic policing commissioned by the Civilian Secretariat for the Police Service (CSPS) of South Africa, ACJR will be conducting skills transfer training with members of the CSPS.
ACJR will participate in a panel discussion on Criminalisation of Poverty: Vagrancy and Related Laws and their Impact on Children’s Access to Justice at the Continental Conference on Access to Justice in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Toward developing a road map for human rights treaty monitoring and reporting so as to strengthen South Africa’s system of human rights-based planning and accountability.
The Civilian Secretariat for the Police Service (CSPS) commissioned research on the state of democratic policing, pursuant to its oversight function.
ACJR's final Community Courts Evaluation report was completed on 17 August 2017. The report was tabled at the Provincial Development Committee meeting on the 28 November 2017 where it was resolved that the report be workshopped.
A draft report on data trends relating to the office of the WCPO was submitted on 25 January 2018. This is a consultative meeting with WCPO staff to discuss the findings of the report.
Argument resumes for the fourth and fifth day.
ACJR, Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) and the University of Essex host a one-day civil society consultation with the UN Special Rapporteur on Health, on the right to health and the deprivation of liberty
Organised by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) and the Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT).
ACJR participates in JICS stakeholder forum
The Regional Conference on the Formal Recognition of Criminal Justice Paralegals is organised by the Paralegal Advisory Service Institute.
Imprisoning the Nation: Minimum sentences in South Africa
The Legal Training Centre is hosting a workshop on the prevention of torture in Mozambique, in collaboration with REFORMAR - Research for Mozambique and ACJR.
The conference, under the auspices of the Access to Justice component of the Ministry of Justice of Zambia, is funded by GTZ and the EU, and seeks to spearhead reforms in Zambia.
PALU's 8th Annual Conference, the leading platform for African lawyers, bringing together distinguished Lawyers and Lawyers' Associations as well as Law firms, Human Rights and Good Governance Professionals.
Validation of the results of an ACJR evaluation of three Western Cape Community Courts
This report seeks to show that the deprivation of liberty by the state in the attempt to maintain “law and order” has a clear and measureable socio-economic impact on individuals and their dependents which is frequently disproportionate. States which seek to maximise development should minimise the conditions under which deprivation of liberty is lawful, and seek to reduce the total number of instances of deprivation of liberty, as well as their duration. The excessive use, frequently for minor offences and for extended periods, of pre-trial detention has negative consequences and is counter-developmental. This report measures and describes these negative consequences. In Zambia, it was found that such detention may permanently sever family relations.
Joint University of Missouri - University of the Western Cape Seminar (ACJR; Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence)
