The Progressive Women’s Movement of SA (PWMSA) has written to Justice and Correctional Services Minister Michael Masutha opposing the release of paralympian Oscar Pistorius from prison. There was concern that Pistorius was being released on correctional supervision during women’s month. “We need clarity of why this month,” PWMSA Gauteng co-convenor[…]
The State is to file its heads of argument in its appeal against the Oscar Pistorius ruling at the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein on Monday. National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson Luvuyo Mfaka said the filings were of an administrative nature. The State’s appeal against Pistorius’s culpable homicide conviction will[…]
The parole of convicted Paralympian Oscar Pistorius was confirmed by the correctional services department on Monday. “The acting national commissioner of correctional services Mr Zach Modise has confirmed that the Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) of Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre, sat on June 5 [Friday] 2015 and approved[…]
Culpable homicide convict Oscar Pistorius could be free from jail in as little as three months’ time and is keen to work with children upon his release. According to his lawyer, Rohan Kruger, Pistorius spends about 23 hours of his day in an isolation wing and spends most of his[…]
The handling of the Oscar Pistorius trial took centre stage during the Judicial Service Commission interviews on Monday night, City Press reported. In the spotlight was North Gauteng High Court Judge Thokozile Masipa, who was being interviewed for the position of judge president of the soon-to-be launched Limpopo Division of[…]
Lawyers for paralympian Oscar Pistorius will on Friday appeal the court decision allowing the State to appeal his culpable homicide conviction. Judge Thokozile Masipa granted the State’s application to appeal Pistorius’s culpable homicide conviction, but dismissed its application to appeal his five-year jail sentence. The State wants him to be[…]
Convicted paralympian Oscar Pistorius’s lawyers will contest the court decision allowing the State to appeal his culpable homicide conviction, his family said on Tuesday. “We confirm that the defence team has lodged an application for leave to appeal the decision of the court regarding the matters that have been referred[…]
The prosecution in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial has been awarded the right to appeal his murder acquittal, after a ruling by Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday. This comes as the state suggested Masipa was incorrect in her application of the legal principle of dolus eventualis, or legal intention, when[…]
Judge Thokozile Masipa on Wednesday dismissed an application by the State against Oscar Pistorius’s sentence but granted the appeal against his conviction of culpable homicide in the Pretoria High court. “In the result in respect of the application… the following order is granted. One, the application for leave to appeal[…]
Judge Thokozile Masipa is expected to give her ruling on the State’s leave to appeal paralympian athlete Oscar Pistorius’ sentence and conviction, in the High Court in Pretoria on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Masipa thanked both counsel and postponed the case to Wednesday 9.30am. “I want to think about it,” she[…]
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