Section 20: Discovery
consolidated text (as at 1991). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
20. Discovery
(1) (a) Subject to and in accordance with Rules of Court, in civil proceedings in the Supreme Court or a District Court to which the State is a
party, the State may be required by the Court to make discovery of documents and produce documents for inspection.
(b) This section shall be without prejudice to any rule of law which
authorises or requires the withholding of a document or the refusal to answer a question on the ground that the disclosure of the document or the
answering of the question would be injurious to the public interest.
(2) Without prejudice to subsection (1) (a), any rules made for the purposes of this section shall be such as to secure that the existence of a
document will not be disclosed if, in the opinion of the President, it would be
injurious to the public interest to disclose the existence of the document.
[S. 20 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]
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