Table of Contents: Vol 16 • No 2 • August 2003
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Editorial committee
WHG van der Linde SC (chair)
A Gabriel
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Cape: L Fichadt
Free State: GJM Wright
Grahamstown: I Smuts SC
Johannesburg: J Wasserman SC, C Watt-Pringle SC
KwaZulu-Natal: W Bowler
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North West: J Stander
Port Elizabeth: P Kroon
Pretoria: HS Havenga
Umtata: MH Shisuba
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©General Council of the Bar of SA
Stop press
- Page 2: Annual general meeting
Chair’s contribution
Letters to the editor
- Page 4: Learning from Gray’s Inn by Schalk Burger SC, Cape Bar
- Page 4: Pupillage: an overwhelming problem with numbers by Bo GO van Niekerk SC, Durban
- Page 5: The high court as upper guardian of all minor children by D Brandaw, Durban
GCB News
- Page 6: NBEB Symposium by Archie Findlay SC, convenor of the NBEB
- Page 8: Enriching skills at Westdean by Hoosen Gani, KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg
- Page 10: 13th Annual Commonwealth Law Conference by Mabel Jansen SCSC, vice-chair of the GCB
- Page 12: The 13th Commonwealth Law Conference: another view by Hoosen Gani, KwaZulu-Natal,
Pietermaritzburg - Page 13: World Conference in Cape Town
- Page 14: IBA Council meeting by Jannie Eksteen SC, Grahamstown Bar
- Page 15: The Legal Aid Board Annual Report 2002 by Mabel Jansen SC, SC, vice-chair of the GCB
- Page 17: LSSA/GCB Joint public statement by management committee of LSSA and executive
committee of GCB - Page 18: The Satchwell Commission: media release by the GCB
- Page 21: Report on London Bar Scholarship by Helen Ngomani, Johannesburg Bar
Bar news
- Page 23: Port Elizabeth contributed by Peter Kroon, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 23: Vrystaat bygedra deur Germa Wright, Vrystaatse Balie
- Page 23: Kaap bygedra deur Theoniel Potgieter SC, Kaapse Balie
- Page 24: Pretoria bygedra deur Henk Havenga
- Page 25: KwaZulu-Natal contributed by Wendalynn Bowler
- Page 26: Johannesburg contributed by C Watt-Pringle SC
- Page 28: Grahamstown contributed by Izak Smuts SC
- Page 29: Human shield volunteer in Iraq Interview by Andrea Gabriel
Names in the news
- Page 30: New appointments
The rule of law
- Page 32: Rule of law in Africa – an Englishman’s view by Edwin Glasgow QC
- Page 34: The rule of law in Botswana by Guy Hoffman SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 34: Criminal charges against judge in Zimbabwe withdrawn
- Page 36: The challenge of promoting the rule of law in Africa by Justice TH Madala
- Page 34: Delay in criminal prosecutions
Forum
- Page 39: Legal Services Protector Bill GCB memorandum
- Page 40: From the celebrated snail to the good Samaritan by Lord Cullen. Lord President of the
Court of Session and Lord Justice General of Scotland - Page 48: Lesotho thin air challenge by Glen Goddard, KwaZulu-Natal Bar, Durban
Advocacy Training
Fly on the wall
- Page 51: Fly on the wall