Table of Contents: Vol 28 • No 1 • April 2015

EDITOR
Philip van der Merwe
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Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers SC (deputy chair)
Johan Brand SC
Richard Brooks SC
Marilena Ioannou
Sandhya Mahabeer
Jean Meiring
Mahlape Sello
Lwandile Sisilana
Jeremy Muller SC (ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Luke Kelly
Free State: Henriette Murray
Grahamstown: Thomas Muller
Johannesburg: Clayton Vetter
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Sarah Linscott, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: Esi Chase
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke SC, Anusha Rawjee
Pretoria: Thys Snyman
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Chair’s contribution
GCB news
- Page 6: GCB calls for effective action against Boko Haram.
- Page 6: GCB Deputy chair appointed to senior International Bar position.
- Page 6: IBA welcomes Sri Lanka presidential promises on rule of law.
- Page 7: Zambia to host inaugural IBA women business lawyers’ event in Africa.
- Page 8: SA Bar set to teach the world the AB of Cricket Duncan Turner Johannesburg Bar.
- Page 9: Legal publisher sponsors another fifty new advocates
Bar news
- Page 11: Johannesburg: Update On Housing by Jean Meiring and Clayton Vetter
- Page 11: Johannesburg: THE PUPIL CLASS OF 2015
- Page 11: Johannesburg: IN MEMORY OF JACOBUS JOHANNES (JAAP) ROESTORF
- Page 12: Johannesburg Bar: JOHANNESBURG BAR AT THE MIDMAR – INSPIRED BY SONA by André Gautschi SC and Les Morison SC
- Page 13: Johannesburg Bar celebrates Fanie Cilliers SC’s half-century in practice
- Page 14: Cape: Top woman commercial lawyer graces Cape High Court bench by Andre Oosthuizen.
- Page 16: Cape: IN MEMORY OF WARDAH GOLIATH, The queen of Huguenot Chambers by Rob Patrick
- Page 18: Eastern Cape: Eastern Cape PORT ELIZABETH By Anusha Rawjee
- Page 18: Eastern Cape: GRAHAMSTOWN by Thomas Miller
- Page 19: Eastern Cape: GRAHAMSTOWN MEMBER CALLS ON SA LAWYERS TO HELP IN SOUTH SUDAN
- Page 20: Kwazulu-Natal: by Kerusha Pillay and Sarah Linscott PIETERMARITZBURG BAR DINNER
- Page 21: Kwazulu-Natal: David Gordon 50 Years of practice.
- Page 22: Pretoria: New Silks by Johan Brand SC
- Page 25: Waarnemende Regters & MORE REGGAE AT THE BAR by Thabo Babedi
Response
Forum
- Page 30: Affirmative Action:separating fact from fiction Vuyani Ngalwana SC, Johannesburg Bar.
- Page 34: Maternity Matters: could 9 months end your practice? Kate Hofmeyr, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 38: Reflections on the role of mediation at the ‘junior Bar’ Shaun Fergus, Cape Bar
- Page 40: Braving the unknown – the journey of pupillage by Deon Pool.
From the Publishers
- Page 42: Bar, Bench & Bullshifters Cape Tales 1950-1990 Collected by Gerald Friedman and Jeremy Gauntlett. Syberink (2013); 96 pages
- Page 42: Arnoster en die Prokureurtjie en ander Vertellings Eerste uitgawe, tweede druk Kees van Dijkhorst; sketse deur Marinus Wiechers Rosslyn Pers (2013); 209 bladsye; sagteband.
- Page 42: Aquila Muscas Non Capit – Refleksies van ‘n Juris Len Els Groep 7 Drukkers en Uitgewers (2013); xi & 81 bladsye; Sagteband.
- Page 42: The Franchise Relationship Under South African Law Tanya Woker Juta & Co. Ltd First Edition (2012); i-xix & 256 pages.
Fly
- Page 52: We were not amused….