Table of Contents: Vol 34 • No 1 • April 2021
Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Marilena Maddison
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Craig Watt-Pringle SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Sascha e Câmara
Free State: Inga Macakati
Grahamstown: Thomas Miller
Johannesburg: Michael Williams
KwaZulu-Natal: Carol Sibiya, Sarah Pudifin-Jones and Nooreen Nursoo
Namibia: Esi Schimming-Chase
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: John Stander
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Port Elizabeth: Morné Olivier
Pretoria: Alex Politis
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Editorial
- Page 1 From the Editor
Index
- Page 2 In this issue
Chair’s contribution
GCB & National News
- Page 6 Media release on public comments of the JG Zuma Foundation
- Page 6 Media release on the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment against the readmission to the roll of advocates of Mr Seth Nthai
- Page 8 Media release in defence of the judiciary in South Africa
- Page 9 Tribute to the late Justice Khayelihle Kenneth Mthiyane
Bar News
- Page 14 Cape Bar
- Page 21 Grahamstown Bar
- Page 22 Polokwane Bar
- Page 22 Kimberley Bar
- Page 23 Bisho Bar
- Page 24 Free State Bar
- Page 26 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 30 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 34 Pretoria Bar
Forum
- Page 36 The collapse of RAF litigation imperils the most vulnerable at the Bar by Jean Meiring and Verlaine de Wit, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 41 The quest for wellness at the bar: A pipedream or a long overdue necessity? by Mukesh Vassen, Cape Bar
- Page 45 To hold chambers or not – that is the question by Thuli Sebata-Vundla, Patrick Wainwright & Patrick MacKenzie, Cape Bar
- Page 49 Summary judgment queries by H C J Flemming, retired judge of the High Court
- Page 54 Law Down Under – Australia’s legal landscape by Lydia Craemer, Johannesburg Bar Library
Law Matters
- Page 58 Law Matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 60 Fly on the Wall