Table of Contents: Vol 24 • No 2 • August 2011

EDITOR

Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Tel 082 961 7696

Editorial committee

Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Lwandile Sisilana
Rashid Vahed SC (ex officio – GCB chair)

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 SC
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke SC
Pretoria: Henk Havenga SC
Umtata: Vusi Msiwa

Editorial information

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Chair’s contribution

GCB news

GCB chair’s annual report 2010/2011

Press releases by the GCB

Bar news

Forum

Middle Temple and SA Conference, September 2010, Theme: Costs

Slices of Bar life

Introducing a new regular feature: The Bar is a demanding place, but many of our colleagues manage to do a great many things beyond the law. Here, Advocate commences a regular column devoted to the people of the Bar and their interesting lives.

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