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Let's understand the backstory of that and what this really means. With me is Nasia Sumar, who's a legal convener of the Legal Task Action Team and a member of the Sia Fana Sonke Action Campaign. Nasiha, I appreciate you engaging us. You're on the pulse. Thank
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Commissioner, the task team includes SAPS, it includes prosecution and other law enforcement agencies. For instance, where we are focusing on the use of cell phones, we also called in ICASA because there were regulatory and legal issues that had to do with the
Let's understand the backstory of that and what this really means. With me is Nasia Sumar, who's a legal convener of the Legal Task Action Team and a member of the Sia Fana Sonke Action Campaign. Nasiha, I appreciate you engaging us. You're on the pulse. Thank
The reality is this. The Legal Practice Act, which is the act that governs or regulates lawyers, makes provision for community service, right? The problem, though, is that that provision is not currently in implementation. It hasn't been implemented yet. So,
the outstanding action, the responsible official and the deadline for moving the case forward. Second, I've directed the Minister of Police, the National Commissioner of Police and the relevant forensic authorities to present within sixty days a funded plan to
Act of 2014, right? And we have three objects. The first one being to provide legal aid and legal advice. The second one to provide legal representation at state expense. And the third one is to provide education and information on legal rights and
that conversation with Dr. Guy Lamb, who of course chairs the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security Task Team at the National Planning Commission. And then perhaps this doesn't apply so much to you because I know you're an engaged citizen, but if I were to
Of law, which is the promotion of equality and prevention of unfair discrimination act. It's created precisely to give people access to justice in a particular area. So you just got to be able to say, okay, I am sitting with this problem. How do I get help to
us to BCCSA. Thank you so much for coming through. Why did you feel there was a need for any kind of legal app? So the journey started about three and a half years ago when sort of tech, AI, LLMs, tech just exploded. And it, I hate to use the very trite
how they proceed with this case will be in good order. So, in terms of what will happen now, there will be at least a provincial task team established, and senior detectives will be appointed in that task team, and there will be focused resources allocated.
And social justice work regardless of regulations. You see it as an important part of the very important role that the law plays in this country. We do. I mean, so obviously, the obligation, again, which is not currently implemented, requires that each lawyer
Important step. How do we enforce the legislation? Because it's one thing for us as lawyers to identify a cybercrime and put it together, but then we have to hand it over to a next authority to enforce it. We've got, in between the cyber crime, we've got the
offences courts, strengthening DNA processing, as well as increasing resources for specialized police units. How are we tracking on the progress of that, Fatima? Look, I think that task team is contentious. I think there are civil society organizations that.
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