Table of Contents: Vol 23 • No 2 • August 2010

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Frans Rautenbach
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: Anthea Platt, Ayesha Tiry, Dirk R van Zyl
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: D Obbes
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke
Pretoria: Henk Havenga
Umtata: Mathobela Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
Stop Press
- Page 3: Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award – Abram (‘Bram’) Louis Fischer QC
- Page 3: GCB’s annual general meeting in Bloemfontein on 23-24 July 2010
GCB News
- Page 4: GCB chair’s annual report 2009/2010
- Page 8: Annual RAF report by JPJ du Plessis SC
- Page 11: Memorandum to the Minister of Justice on judicial appointments
- Page 50: Media release: Joint press release with LSSA: Respecting the judiciary and court decisions
Bar news
- Page 14: KwaZulu-Natal: News by Kerusha Pillay and Andreas Coutsoudis, KwaZulu-Natal Bar – New members • Pietermaritzburg • Durban • New chambers • Pupils • Silks: 2009
- Page 14: KwaZulu-Natal: Judiciary By Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis, and Kerusha Pillay – The Bench: Retirement of Judge P resident Vuka Tshabalala, Retirement of Deputy Judge President Phillip Levinsohn • New appointments: Judge President Herbert Qedusizi Msimang, Judge Robert Elliot Griffiths, Judge Graham Lopes
- Page 16: Free State: News by Henriette Murray, Bloemfontein Bar – Members
- Page 16: Northern Cape: News By Lizanne van Niekerk, North Cape Bar, Kimberley – New Bar Council • Advocate arrested! • Social weekend • Legal Golfday
- Page 18: North West By John Stander, North West Bar – South Africa’s first lady Judge President: Monica Leeuw • New member Thabile Mpshe • All work and no play
- Page 19: Johannesburg: Launching of Moorcroft’s book on Banking Law • 2008 and 2009 silk conferment
- Page 19: Johannesburg: Barwon raises the bar: the Johannesburg Bar at Midmar 2010 By André Gautschi SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 20: Johannesburg: In memoriam – The late Judge Mahomed Jajbhay by Lötter Wepener, chairman of the Johannesburg Bar
- Page 20: The Johannesburg Bar: yesterdays and tomorrows By Roland Sutherland SC and Desirée Lundström, members of the Johannesburg Bar – Opening of the Johannesburg Bar archives and moot court • Excerpts from the Johannesburg Bar archives
- Page 23: Pretoria: News by Henk Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar – Bar Council for 2010/2011 • New appointments to the Bench • Acting appointments • Prestasies – Ben Swart SC oorwin Everest! • Sirkelkamers en sy sportmanne – The Argus • Jaco van Heerden
- Page 23: Pretoria: Regter Hans Fabricius deur Ernst van Graan SC, Pretoria-Balie
- Page 25: Pretoria: In memoriam • Wyle Daniël Johannes Haarhof le Roux: 16/10/1928-12/5/2010 Deur Kees van Dijkhorst, voormalige regter van die Noord-Gautengse Hooggeregshof
- Page 26: Cape Bar: Kalahari Cup Match By Joel Krige, Cape Bar
Forum
- Page 27: SA and International Criminal Justice by Max du Plessis, KwaZulu-Natal Bar, Durban
- Page 30: In pursuit of justice: Bram Fischer Memorial Lecture delivered by Chief Justice Margaret H Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts, USA, on 13 November 2009
- Page 36: 36 Transparency and accountability in the judicial appointment process by LTC Harms, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 39: BSB and the structure of the profession by Malcolm Wallis, judge of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court
- Page 42: Terrorism, counter-terrorism and human rights by Susannah Cowen, Cape Bar
- Page 43: In support of Justice Goldstone by Arthur Chaskalson, former Chief Justice of South Africa, and George Bizos SC, senior counsel at the Constitutional Litigation Unit of the Legal Resources Centre
- Page 46: ‘n Maand in die vreemde – Deel 1 deur Altus Joubert SC, Johannesburgse Balie
From the Publishers
- Page 49: Unjustified enrichment in SA Law by JC Sonnekus reviewed by Saul Miller, Cape Bar
- Page 49: The Pension Funds Act: A Commentary by Rosemarie Hunter et al reviewed by Craig Watt- Pringle SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 50: The Law of Arbitration in SA and International Arbitration by Peter Ramsden reviewed by D Donnelly, Durban Bar
Legal Crossword
- Page 51: Legal Crossword Number 11
- Page 52: Legal Crossword Number 11: Answers
Fly
- Page 52: Fly on the wall