Table of Contents: Vol 17 • No 2 • August 2004

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Editorial committee
WHG van der Linde SC (chair)
L Fichardt
A Gabriel
IJ Smuts SC
FA Snyckers
Bar representatives
Bisho: TV Norman
Cape: T Potgieter
Free State: GJM Wright
Grahamstown: I Smuts SC
Johannesburg: C Watt-Pringle SC
KwaZulu-Natal: W Bowler
Northern Cape: J Schreuder
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
Chair’s contribution
Stop press
- Page 3: GCB: New National Executive
- Page 3: Juta Prize for best article
- Page 3: Fourth World Congress on Family Law and Children’s Rights
Bar Conference
- Page 4: World Bar Conference ‘a triumph’ Alasdair Sholto-Douglas and Michael Janisch, Cape Bar
- Page 8: Sharks at the dock – a different look at the second World Bar Conference Michael Janisch,
Cape Bar
GCB News
- Page 12: Pupillage 2004: Shosholoza! AJ Dickson SC, Durban Bar
- Page 13: SA citizens held in Zimbabwe and Equatorial Guinea GCB statement
- Page 14: Advocacy training: the ‘method’ Sharise Weiner SC, Johannesburg Bar
Bar news
- Page 15: Pretoria bygedra deur Henk Havenga
- Page 17: Port Elizabeth contributed by Peter Kroon, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 18: Vrystaat bygedra deur Germa Wright
- Page 18: Kaap bygedra deur Theoniel Potgieter SC
- Page 18: Johannesburg contributed by C Watt-Pringle SC
- Page 21: KwaZulu-Natal contributed by Wendalynn Bowler
- Page 22: Grahamstown contributed by Izak Smuts SC
A Bar to Women
- Page 23: Eight years at the Bar and still being discriminated against … Fayeeza Kathree,
Johannesburg Bar - Page 23: Women barristers: is it worth a woman’s going to the Bar? Frances Burton, barrister,
London - Page 24: The plight of women Thandi Norman, Durban Bar
- Page 26: Women at the Bar in England and Wales Janet Kentridge, barrister, London
- Page 29: Identifying the barriers by Kate O’Regan, Judge of the Constitutional Court
- Page 33: Briefing patterns in the Constitutional Court by Jason Brickhill
- Page 34: Some personal experiences by Ruth Kuper SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 35: Advokaat Mamma deur Celesté Reynders, Vrystaatse Balie
- Page 36: Are the mountains moving? by Vivienne Niles-Duner, Judge of the Natal High Court
- Page 39: A Bar to women? Judge Anna-Marié de Vos interviewed by Yvonne Kemp
Forum
- Page 41: Basic values by President Thabo Mbeki
- Page 44: Some reflections on contemporary ethics Ditshigo Mashigo, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 46: Integrating IT into legal practice by Steve Kirk-Cohen SC, Cape Bar
- Page 48: Regshulpopdragte: ‘n vloek of ‘n seën? Isobel Ellis, Pretoriase Balie
Letter to the editor
From the publishers
- Page 50: Schmidt’s Law of Evidence Frank Snyckers, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 51: The feminist label. From an interview by Time, March 2004, with Gloria Steinem
Fly on the wall
- Page 52: Fly on the wall