Table of Contents: Vol 22 • No 1 • April 2009
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Jannie Eksteen SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC,
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Anton Kruger
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: David Leibowitz
KwaZulu-Natal: Rashid Vahed SC, Paul Wallis, Zuleka Rasool
Namibia: Andrew Corbett
Northern Cape: Japie Schreuder
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: David Smith
Pretoria: Henk Havenga
Umtata: Mathobela Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
Press Statements
- Page 3: Press statement by the GCB on Judge President Hlophe, 5 February 2009
- Page 23: Press statement by the GCB on the Dalai Lama by Patric Mtshaulana SC, chairperson: General Council of the Bar of SA; Brian Spilg SC, convenor: Human Rights Committee of the GCB, 26 March 2009
Advocate
- Page 4: Advocate goes digital
Regbank
- Page 6: Nuwe aanstellings • Adjunkpresident van Hoogste Hof van Appèl • Brief van gelukwensing aan regter LTC Harms deur die ABR-voorsitter • Hoogste Hof van Appèl • Natal Provincial Division • Transvaal Provincial Division • Transkei Division • Free State Provincial Division • Electoral Court • Labour Court
- Page 7: Constitutional Court Library Reading Room
Judiciary
Bar news
- Page 11: Johannesburg: SCA Judge Suretta Snyders by Lötter Wepener
- Page 11: The Johannesburg Bar at Midmar 2009 by André Gautschi SC
- Page 11: A long recovery time after the tour; a long match report to go with it contributed by Bruce Leech and Paul Belger
- Page 14: Grahamstown: Contributed by Richard Brooks, Grahamstown Bar. SCA Judge Nonkosi Mhlantla by Richard Brooks
- Page 15: Eastern Cape Bar Dinner: Speech by former Supreme Court of Appeal President Craig Howie
- Page 16: Port Elizabeth by David Smith
- Page 16: Free State by Henriette Murray: Judge Fouché Jordaan • Meetings; Bar membership; adrenaline junkies
- Page 18: Kwazulu-Natal by Zuleka Rasool and Paul Wallis: The Bench: Judges Malcolm Wallis; Trevor Gorden; B Mnguni; F Mokgohloa; E Steyn • Pupillage • New members in Durban and Pietermaritzburg
- Page 19: North West by John Stander: New chambers • Annual Bar dinner • New members • Pupil • Executive
- Page 20: Pretoria by Henk Havenga SC: SCA Deputy President LTC Harms; Regter André Louw • New silks • New members • Erratum • Waarnemende regters
- Page 23: Cape: Cape Bar’s response to refugee crisis by Andrew Brown, Cape Bar
- Page 24: Captain’s match report: The revival of an 80 year old contest by Joel Krige, Cape Bar
FUL
- Page 26: Launch of Freedom under Law
Forum
- Page 28: The introduction of clerks to bring about equity in briefing by Ellen Fitz-Patrick, Cape Bar
- Page 32: The rule of law in post-colonial Africa: a British legacy? by Johann Kriegler, former Constitutional Court Justice
- Page 40: The fight for land – round two (asset grabbing) by Brian Spilg SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 45: Effective opening statements in American trial practice: Part 1 by Willem H Gravett, New York State Bar
From the Publishers
- Page 49:Environmental Law Second edition by Michael Kidd reviewed by Richard Brooks, Grahamstown Bar
- Page 49: Coopers Motor Law Second edition by SV Hoctor reviewed by Anthonie Troskie SC, Durban Bar
- Page 49: Unjustified Enrichment by Daniel Visser reviewed by Alfred Cockrell, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 50: Mars – The Law of Insolvency in South Africa Ninth edition by E Bertelsmann et al reviewed by André Badenhorst SC, Pretoria Bar
Legal Crossword
- Page 51: Legal Crossword Number 7
- Page 10: Legal Crossword Number 7: Answers
Fly
- Page 52: Fly on the wall