Table of Contents: Vol 21 • No 2 • August 2008
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Jannie Eksteen SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC,
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Anton Kruger
Free State: Zachia Eloff, Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: David Leibowitz
KwaZulu-Natal: Wendalynn Bowler, Paul Wallis, Zuleka Rasool
Namibia: Andrew Corbett
Northern Cape: Japie Schreuder
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Peter Kroon
Pretoria: Henk Havenga
Umtata: Mathobela Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
Tribute
- Page 3: Retirement of SCA President Craig Howie by RJW Jones,judge of the Eastern Cape
High Court - Page 4: Lesotho says farewell to Justice Jan Steyn by Michael Ramodebedi
Judiciary
- Page 6: The Constitutional Court’s complaint against Judge President Hlophe
- Page 7: Courts and counter-revolutions
- Page 35: Stop Press judiciary: Attacks on the judiciary
- Page 35: Stop Press judiciary: SA Law Deans Association (SALDA)
- Page 41: The dispensable judiciary. Brian Spilg SC, Johannesburg Bar, convenor: Human Rights Committee of the GCB
Stop Press GCB News
- Page 5: GCB annual general meeting: 2008
- Page 5: Outgoing executive of the GCB
GCB news
- Page 8: GCB Media statement on xenophobic violence, Jannie Eksteen SC, GCB Chair and Brian Spilg SC, convenor: Human Rights Committee of the GCB
- Page 8: ICAB resolution on Zimbabwe
- Page 8: Media statement by the GCB on human rights abuses in Zimbabwe by JW Eksteen SC,
GCB Chair and BS Spilg SC, convenor: Human Rights Committee of the GCB - Page 10: Fourth World Conference for Advocates and Barristers, Jannie Eksteen, GCB Chair
Bar News
- Page 11: Northern Cape – History of the Northern Cape Bar
- Page 12: Port Elizabeth, contributed by Peter Kroon
- Page 12: Pretoria, contributed by Henk Havenga
- Page 14: Pretoria – Gray’s Inn – New practitioners training, May 2008 by Johanni Barnard
- Page 15: Johannesburg – New use of the Johannesburg Bar’s website by Dana du Plessis
- Page 16: Johannesburg – New members and pupils, by Kate Hofmeyr
- Page 18: KwaZulu-Natal, by Zuleka Rasool
- Page 18: KwaZulu-Natal – La dolce vita by Glen Goddard
- Page 20: KwaZulu-Natal – Writing with a difference
- Page 20: Cape – More cricket: A snippet of Cape Bar history by Joel Krige
- Page 23: Cape – Cultural sensitivity: What does it really mean? by Marlene Potgieter
IBA
Forum
- Page 26: Submission to the Enquiry into the National Director of Public Prosecutions by the
SA Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law - Page 33: A few last thoughts on direct examination in American trial practice:
Part 4 by Willem H Gravett - Page 36: The International Criminal Court by Didier D Preira and Sasan S Shoamanesh
From the publishers
- Page 44: Trusts: Law and Practice by Walter Geach with Jeremy Yeats, reviewed by Henk
Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar - Page 44: Dismissal, Discrimination and Unfair Labour Practices by John Grogan reviewed by Riaan
Grundlingh, Pretoria Bar - Page 45: Odyssey to Freedom by George Bizos reviewed by Faizel Ismail, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 46: Book announcements
Legal crossword
- Page 47: Legal Crossword Number 5
FLY
- Page 48: Fly on the wall