CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – LAPSING OF APPEAL DUE TO NON-COMPLIANCE – CONDONATION APPLICATION FILED AFTER TWO YEARS OF BECOMING AWARE OF NON-COMPLIANCE. Minister of Safety and Security and 5 others v Kennedy and another NASC (18 July 2023)

The appellants (the Government) sought to set aside some orders granted by the High Court in favour of the respondents who are inmates at a correctional facility run in terms of the Correctional Service Act 9 of 2012 (the Act); while the second respondent (cross-appellant) cross-appealed the relief that was dismissed by the High Court. Amongst others, the cross-appellant had challenged the practice of placing handcuffs on inmates behind their backs while being transported; the practice of solitary confinement authorised under s 103 of the Act and reg 257 made thereunder; and the denial of contact visits . . .

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