OMMENT: SUPERIOR COURTS BILL 2010 (Deadline 30 June 2010)

We refer to our letter dated 30 May 2010 where we asked you to include an MPL (Muslim Personal Law) Matters Special Division in section 8 of the above Bill.
The Muslim Judicial Council has informed us that they support this request and have communicated this directly to you.
The Muslim community has been engaging government more formally over the past 11 years to get legal consequences for Muslim marriages and matters relating to Muslim Personal Law. The Muslim Marriages Bill was seen as a vehicle to achieve this. It appears that this Bill was premature now that the Superior Courts Bill 2010 will shape our court structure for the f

http://www.vocfm.co.za/index.php?section=news&category=mplnews&article=56419 The Draft Bill on Muslim Marriages – which is to be published in the Government Gazette shortly for public comment after it was passed by cabinet a month ago – is too cumbersom for the public to read and should…

Dear Sir

Your newspaper has reported on the Muslim Marriages Bill and your readers may be worried that the Muslim community is estranging itself from the rest of the country. This is not so. Since the adoption of the Bill of Rights we have been engaging government on matters that has disenfranchised our community for over 300 years. Limited state resources, a judiciary in limbo and the quest for a single court system is the reason for the delay in giving legal consequences to Muslim marriages.

MUSLIM MARRIAGE BILL DIVISIVE

VOICE OF THE CAPE RADIO INTERVIEW: Mr Jamiel Wallace with Ganief Hendricks Wednesday 12 January 2011. 7H10.

“We can find some way to have in place legislation that will give full legal consequences to Muslim marriages. There continues to be concerns about the Muslim Marriages Bill. The position of the AL JAMA-AH Political Party is that the answer is found in the Superior Courts Bill and that the Muslim Marriages Bill must be scaled down to about 5 pages instead of the present 24 pages. so that it is merely a piece of enabling legislation and amends other laws which stands in the way of giving legal consequences to Muslim marriages like the Deeds Registry Act, Intestate Succession Act and Maintenance of Surviving Spouses Act.