South African Sheriffs’ Guide, The: Practice and Procedure

Product Details:Author(s): M Paleker, for the South African Board of Sheriffs Year Published:2015EditionType:Print | Loose-leafLanguage:EnglishAbout this publicationThe South African Sheriffs’ Guide: Practice and Procedure is the definitive text on the work and methodology of the Sheriffs’ profession. Commissioned by the South African Board for Sheriffs, this loose-leaf title offers invaluable information to Sheriffs, legal professionals, researchers and members of the public.
Care has been taken with the layout and writing style to ensure that as a reference guide it is reader friendly and accessible.
Aside from discussions on law, the text binds the Sheriffs’ profession to constitutional values, good practices and ethics – principles that are critical to the South African Board for Sheriffs.
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Generic job description and professional ethics
The South African Board for Sheriffs
The appointment of sheriffs
Disciplinary measures against a sheriff
The Fidelity Fund, Fidelity Fund certificates and levies to the board
Court processes
Service of process
General
Service in the High Court
Service in the magistrates’ courts
Execution
Execution in the High Court
Miscellaneous aspects of the High Court procedure
Execution in the magistrates’ courts
Miscellaneous aspects of the magistrates’ courts procedure
The Consumer Protection Act and sales in execution
Admiralty jurisdiction
Arrests in rem
Attachments in personam
The purpose behind arrests in rem and attachments in personam
The role of the fund following a judicial sale of maritime property
Execution against the state
Insolvency
Small claims courts
Costs
Annexures
Annexure 1
Sheriffs Act 90 of 1986
State Liability Act 20 of 1957
Regulations
Forms in terms of legislation 
Code of conduct for sheriffs 
Description of an area of jurisdiction of a lower or superior court
Annexure 2
Returns of service
Service returns
Execution returns
Removal returns
Payments
Claims
Court orders
Releases/lapses/suspension
Non-service/execution returns
Stays/suspensions/unsuccessful services/unsuccessful executions
Technical defects
Execution against the State
Annexure 3 Miscellaneous forms
Forms emanating from magistrates’ courts procedure
Forms emanating from High Court procedure
Forms emanating from various legislation
Forms emanating from admiralty jurisdiction
Table of cases
Table of statutes
Index
Interest / Benefit to
Sheriffs
Legal professionals
Researchers
The general public