Table of Contents: Vol 25 • No 1 • April 2012
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
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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
Gerrit Pretorius SC (ex officio – GCB chair)
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Frans Rautenbach
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: Kameshni Pillay
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Sarah Linscot, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: D Obbes SC
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke SC, Anusha Rawjee
Pretoria: Leon Dicker
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Chair’s contribution
- Page 2: An honourable profession? By Gerrit Pretorius SC, Chair, General Council of the Bar of South Africa
GCB news
The GCB’s Advanced Advocacy Training Course
Reports on the training course at the Wallenberg Centre, Stellenbosch University, 10-15 January 2011
- Page 3: Wallenberg: baptism of fire in the Winelands. Compiled and introduced by Jean Meiring, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 5: Advocacy training crucial to the rule of law. An excerpt from the address at the Wallenberg gala dinner by Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, delivered on 13 January 2012
- Page 7: A matter of survival. An edited excerpt from the address by Tino Bere, president of the Law Society of Zimbabwe
Media Statement by the GCB
Bar news
- Page 12: Free State: Young Leaders Symposium. By JP Daffue SC, Free State Bar
- Page 14: KwaZulu-Natal: By Lawrence Broster SC, Sarah Linscott and Karusha Pillay, KwaZulu-Natal Bar – New judges • New silks in Durban and Pietermaritzburg • New members in Durban and Pietermaritzburg
- Page 16: Eastern Cape: Port Elizabeth – by Steve Rorke SC and Anusha Rawjee, Port Elizabeth Bar – New members • Appointments to the Bench
- Page 16: Eastern Cape: Grahamstown – little change • New members. By Richard Brooks, Grahamstown Bar
- Page 18: Transkei Bar – News by Vusi Msiwa
- Page 18: North West: News by John Stander, North West Bar
- Page 19: Free State: By Henriette Murray, Free State Bar • New judges: Judge Johann Daffue, Judge Lepono Lekale
- Page 20: Pretoria: News by Leon Dicker, Pretoria Bar – New silks • Judicial news • In memoriam: Dennie Du Preez SC
- Page 22: Pretoria: Pretoria trounces Johannesburg at cricket – twice! By Francois Botes, Pretoria Bar
- Page 22: Pretoria: Pretoria Bar cricket tour to Cape Town By Sarel Myburgh, Pretoria Bar
- Page 24: Cape: Kalahari Cup Vineyard Oval 29 January 2012 By Joel Krige, Cape Bar
- Page 25: Cape: Building a transformed judiciary in post-apartheid South Africa: prospects and challenges. Report by Thembalihle Sidaki, member of the Cape Bar
- Page 26: Johannesburg: News by Kameshni Pillay, Johannesburg Bar – The Johannesburg Bar’s bi- annual dinner • Challenge to the President’s power to confer the status of senior counsel • Judicial appointment: Judge Roland Sutherland
- Page 27: Johannesburg: Excerpts from speeches honouring Duma Nokwe at the Johannesburg Bar’s bi-annual dinner on 15 October 2011
- Page 28: Johannesburg: In memoriam Standing on the shoulders of a giant. Hiram Zangwill Slomowitz 29/9/1939-6/10/2011 By N Limberis SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 29: Johannesburg: New silks: Brahm Du Plessis SC, Gregory Charles Wright SC, Gerhar Johannes Strydom SC, Michael Martin Antonie SC, Anthony George Sawma SC, Tebogo Frank Mathibedi SC, Christopher Whitcutt SC, Phillip Lehlohonolo Mokoena SC, Frank Alexander Snyckers SC, Ngwako Hamilton Maenetje SC, Alan Christopher Dodson SC.
- Page 30: Johannesburg: University of Zululand student vacation programme at Group 21 By Johan Moorcroft, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 31: Johannesburg: Victoria Mxenge Group launch: adopting group values. By Susannah Cowen, Johannesburg Bar
Conferences
Forum: Ethics
- Page 33: Some thoughts on the commercial side of practice By Judge Malcolm Wallis, judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal and former chairman of the General Council of the Bar of SA
- Page 37: Is ons regspleging billik en doeltreffend? Deur K van Dijkhorst, oudregter van die Hooggeregshof, Pretoria
- Page 40: High fees and questionable practices By Owen Rogers, Cape Bar
- Page 43: ‘I am not overcompensated enough’: The moral compass of the American lawyer By Willem Gravett, New York State Bar
- Page 48: Compromising counsel’s fees. By Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
Middle Temple and SA Conference, September 2010 – The rule of law under a written and unwritten constitution
Slices
From the Publishers
- Page 54: The Law of Neighbours. By AJ van der Walt Juta Law (2010) Soft cover, reviewed by Henk Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 54: The New Companies Act Unlocked By Carl Stein Siber Ink (2011) Soft cover, reviewed by Sandile Kuboni, Durban Bar
- Page 54: The Comparative Guide to the Old and New Companies Acts By Richard Jooste Juta Law (2011) Soft cover, reviewed by Sandile Kuboni, Durban Bar
Letter to the Editor
Legal Crossword
- Page 55: Legal Crossword Number 16
- Page 56: Legal Crossword Number 16: Answers
Fly
- Page 56: Fly on the wall