Table of Contents: Vol 24 • No 1 • April 2011

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Lwandile Sisilana
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Frans Rautenbach
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: Anthea Platt, Ayesha Tiry, Dirk R van Zyl
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: D Obbes SC
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke SC
Pretoria: Henk Havenga SC
Umtata: Vusi Msiwa
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Chair’s contribution
- Page 2: The Legal Practice Bill By Rashid Vahed SC, chair of the General Council of the Bar of South Africa
GCB and Cape Bar news
The GCB’s Advanced Advocacy Training Course
Reports on the training course at the Wallenberg Centre, Stellenbosch University, 10-15 January 2011
- Page 4: Improving the performance skills of advocates By Rudi van Rooyen SC, Cape Bar
- Page 5: Participants’ views by Elzette Maritz and Roseline Nyman, Cape Bar
- Page 6: Advocacy skills training: an international perspective By Amber Darr, Barrister-at-Law, Pakistan
Bar news
- Page 7: Cape: New silks by Luke Kelly, Cape Bar
- Page 7: Cape: Cape Bar intervenes in silk recommendations by Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
- Page 8: Northern Cape: News by Lizanne van Niekerk, Northern Cape Bar – Acting appointments • New members • Pupils • Bar dinner • Farewell: Judge Majiedt, Appointment as SCA Judge
- Page 8: North West: News by John Stander, North West Bar
- Page 10: Johannesburg: New silks by Les Morison, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 11: Johannesburg: Group 21 bids farewell to Judge Wepener by Johan Moorcroft, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 12: Johannesburg: Transformation awards by Anthea Platt, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 12: Pretoria: News by Henk Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar – New judges: Justice SP Mothle; Justice Hennie de Vos • New members • The 2011 pupil intake • Waarnemende aanstellings • Desert dash
- Page 13: KwaZulu-Natal: By Lawrence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis and Karusha Pillay, KwaZulu-Natal Bar – New silks in Durban and Pietermaritzburg • In memoriam: The late Reagan Jacobus by MTK Moerane SC
- Page 15: Eastern Cape: Grahamstown – To change, or not to change? By Richard Brooks, Grahamstown Bar
- Page 16: Eastern Cape: Port Elizabeth – by Steve Rorke SC and Anusha Rawjee, Port Elizabeth Bar – New members • New silks
- Page 16: Free State: News by Henriette Murray, Bloemfontein Bar – New members • New silks: André Burger SC; Peter Fischer SC • Acting in the High Court • Into Africa
International Arbitration Conference
Forum
- Page 22: The future of the four year LLB by Leon Dicker, Pretoria Bar, representative of the GCB on the National Legal Education Liaison Committee
- Page 27: Judicial independence and purposive interpretation By Justice JR Murphy, judge of the North Gauteng High Court
- Page 32: Trial advocacy training in the United States By Willem H Gravett and Conrad van Loggerenberg, New York State Bar
- Page 45: ‘n Maand in die vreemde – Deel 3 Deur Altus Joubert SC, Johannesburgse Balie
Middle Temple and SA Conference, September 2010, Theme: Remedies
- Page 35: The judicial role in cases involving resource allocation by Geoff Budlender SC, Cape Bar
- Page 38: Challenging government decisions: codified and uncodified judicial review in South Africa By Hugh Corder, Professor of Public Law, University of Cape Town
- Page 41: 40 Fashioning constitutional remedies in SA: some reflections by Justice Kate O’Regan, former judge of the Constitutional Court of SA
Conferences
Lawyers cricket
From the Publishers
- Page 49: Herbstein and Van Winsen The Civil Practice of the High Courts and the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa Volumes 1 and 2 Fifth edition by A Cilliers, C Loots and H Nel reviewed by Alfred Cockrell, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 49: Labour Dispute Resolution Second edition by John Brand, Casper Lötter, Felicity Steadman and Thembeka Ngcukaitobi reviewed by Wilhelm Bekker, Pretoria Bar
- Page 50: State Commercial Activity – a Legal Framework By Geo Quinot reviewed by Henk Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 50: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law By Albie Sachs reviewed by Faizel Ismail, Johannesburg Bar
Legal Crossword
- Page 51: Legal Crossword Number 13
- Page 31: Legal Crossword Number 13: Answers
Fly
- Page 52: Fly on the wall