The Centre for Child Law entered into an agreement with the Legal Aid Board in terms of which the Centre provides assistance to the Legal Aid Board practitioners on matters relating to children. The Centre sends out a weekly update on child law matters called "issues", as listed below:

Child Law Matters

• ISSUE 1
  2007 Developments in Child Law

• ISSUE 2
  Child Justice Bill

• ISSUE 3
  Education Laws Amendment Act

• ISSUE 4
International Child Abductions

• ISSUE 5
  Diversion

• ISSUE 6
Imprisonment of Young Offenders

• ISSUE 7
Parental Rights and Responsibilities Overview

• ISSUE 8
  Minimum Sentences and Young Offenders

• ISSUE 9
  Parental Responsibilities and Rights of Unmarried Fathers

• ISSUE 10
  Appeals and Children

• ISSUE 11
  Form 4 Removals

• ISSUE 12
  Detaining Unconvicted Childen

• ISSUE 13
  Child Participation

• ISSUE 14
  Minimum age of criminal responsibility

• ISSUE 15
  Enforcement of Children’s Rights

• ISSUE 16
  Sentencing of young offenders: the Ntaka judgment

• ISSUE 17
  Rescission of Adoption and the best interest of the child

• ISSUE 18
  Unaccompanied foreign children: their right to legal representation

• ISSUE 19
  The Best interest of the Child

• ISSUE 20
  Restorative justice in sentencing: recent guidance from case law

• ISSUE 21
  Relocation

• ISSUE 22
  Foster care

• ISSUE 23
  Minimum sentence judgment

• ISSUE 24
  Compulsory paternity tests and the acquisition of parental rights and responsibilities (section 21 of the Children’s Act)

• ISSUE 25
  Sexual Offences Register

• ISSUE 26
  The issue of criminal capacity based on a plea explanation
  
  
• ISSUE 27
  SCA precedent on guilty plea explanations and the issue of remittal: The case of SM v S1[1]

• ISSUE 28
  Minimum sentences declared invalid for 16 and 17 year olds

• ISSUE 29
  The role of Mediation in the Process of Litigating family law disputes: Brownlee v Brownlee 25274/2008 (South Gauteng High Court)

• ISSUE 30
  The national register for sex offenders: Child Welfare South Africa v Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Another, Case no: 68184/09 (North Gauteng High Court) 

• ISSUE 31
  Legal representation of children:HG v CG 2010 (3) SA 352 (ECP).

• ISSUE 32
  Exclusive Jurisdiction Of The High Court In Guardianship Matters:Ex Parte Sibisi, Case No. 2115/10 [2010] Zakzphc 56 (Unreported)