A bench that never laughs is a hard bench to sit on. Circle the answers in chambers, not on the record.
Six questions for the passage
1. Which section of the Constitution places judicial authority in the courts and requires organs of state to assist and protect them?
2. Which Constitutional Court case remains the first port of call when someone suggests that magistrates are not judicial officers?
3. In the Magistrates’ Courts, which Rule governs default judgment — and which Rule governs rescission?
4. Every magistrate’s court is a children’s court by which section of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005?
5. Consent to adoption is ordinarily signed in the presence of which officer?
6. True or false: an acting magistrate is a junior species of judicial officer, and need not be greeted as one.