Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Marilena Maddison
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Loyiso Makapela
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Myron Dewrance SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Gregory Solik
Free State: Inga Macakati
Grahamstown: Thomas Miller
Johannesburg: Quentin du Plessis
KwaZulu-Natal: Lisa Olsen and Nooreen Nursoo
Namibia: Eliaser Nekwaya
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: John Stander
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Gqeberha: James Ramsay
Pretoria: Megan Moodley
Bhisho: Bayethe Maswazi
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ISSN 1683-2566
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Editorial
- Page 1 From the Editor
Index
- Page 2 In this Issue
Bar News
- Page 3 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 13 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 19 Namibia Bar
- Page 20 Limpopo Bar
- Page 21 Pretoria Bar
- Page 26 Western Cape Bar
- Page 28 North-West Bar
- Page 31 Gqeberha Bar
- Page 32 Free State Bar
Forum
- Page 33 Through the doors of the Peace Palace by Sarah Pudifin-Jones, KZN Bar
- Page 38 Reflections on Bashir, nuclear deals, Mugabe and Putin The role of Public International Law – Is this world not my home? by Professor Max du Plessis SC
- Page 42 Tracing the Constitutional Court’s exploration of the Constitution’s embrace of international law – From Azapo to Glenister II to Law Society and beyond by Andreas Coutsoudis
- Page 49 When is genocide, genocide? by Adila Hassim SC
- Page 54 The Right Side of History – SA at the ICJ, again by Professor Christopher Gevers
Law Matters
- Page 58 Law matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 60 Fly on the Wall