High Court of South Africa

South African High Court

The High Court of South Africa is a superior court of law in South Africa. It is divided into nine provincial divisions, some of which sit in more than one location. Each High Court division has general jurisdiction over a defined geographical area in which it is situated. The decisions of a division are binding on magistrates' courts within its area of jurisdiction. The High Court has jurisdiction over all matters, but it usually only hears civil matters involving more than 400,000 rand, and serious criminal cases. It also hears any appeals or reviews from magistrates' courts and other lower courts.

The South African High Court and its divisions are constituted in their current form by the Superior Courts Act, 2013. They replaced the previous separate High Courts, which had in 1997 replaced the provincial and local divisions of the former Supreme Court of South Africa and the supreme courts of the TBVC states (Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei) which were "Bantustans" created by the apartheid government in the 1950s.

The Superior Courts Act, 2013, divides the High Court into nine divisions, one for each province. Some divisions have multiple seats of the court; the main seat has jurisdiction over the whole province, while the local seats have concurrent jurisdiction over some part of the province.

There are currently 14 Provincial Divisions of the High Court. They are situated in the following areas:

• Eastern Cape High Court (Bhisho)
• East Eastern Cape High Court (Grahamstown)
• Eastern Cape High Court (Mthatha)
• Eastern Cape High Court (Port Elizabeth)
• Free State High Court (Bloemfontein)
• North Gauteng High Court (Pretoria)
• South Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg)
• KwaZulu- Natal High Court (Durban)
• KwaZulu-Natal High Court (Pietermaritzburg)
• Limpopo High Court (Thohoyandou)
• Northern Cape High Court (Kimberley)
• North West High Court, Mafikeng (Mmabatho)
• Polokwane Circuit Court of the North Gauteng High Court, Pretoria
• Western Cape High Court (Cape Town)

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Christopher Nicholson	Judge	1 January 1996	July 2010

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