Changes to keep debtors out of jail | The National:
"Mediation is to be introduced to reduce the number of people sent to prison and time served in civil cases over debts or bounced cheques.
Debtors in civil cases will have ready access to a judge without having to wait for a hearing, which also means fewer cases clogging up the courts. And those few who are eventually jailed over debts will not serve a day longer than their sentence.
“All they are required to do is to send in a request and a judge will meet them regardless of the date of their hearing,” said one judge, who asked not to be identified."
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