Table of Contents: Vol 26 • No 1 • April 2013

EDITOR

Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
082 961 7696

Editorial committee

Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Marilena Ioannou
Sandhya Mahabeer
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
IAM Semenya SC (ex officio – GCB chair)

Bar representatives

Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Luke Kelly
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: Thys Snyman
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa

Editorial information

Advocate is the journal of the General Council of the Bar (GCB). Except in the case of official press releases or statements, published as such, the views expressed by individual contributors of articles and items in Advocate do not purport to be the views of the editorial committee of Advocate, or the official views of the GCB, but remain the views of the individual contributors.

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