Table of Contents: Vol 27 • No 2 • August 2014

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
082 961 7696
Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Marilena Ioannou
Sandhya Mahabeer
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
IAM Semenya SC (ex officio – GCB chair)
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Luke Kelly
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: Kameshni Pillay
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Sarah Linscot, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: D Obbes SC
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke SC, Anusha Rawjee
Pretoria: Thys Snyman
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
Editorial information
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Chair’s contribution
GCB news – Talking heads: Upcoming conferences
- Page 6: Judicial education conference for acting judges
- Page 6: GCB’s 69th AGM
- Page 8: Legal history conference – Law in the post-colony and in the Empire
GCB press release
Bar news
- Page 15: Free State: Farewell to JP Musi by Henriette Murray
- Page 16: KwaZulu-Natal: Durban by Sarah Linscott and Sandhya Mahabeer
- Page 18: Cape: Tribute to Ezra Sakinofsky (1920-2014) Authored by the Sakinofsky family and the Cape Bar
- Page 19: Eastern Cape: PORT ELIZABETH Mark Euijen and Anusha Rawjee
- Page 20: Johannesburg: The Johannesburg Bar is transforming by Les Morison SC
- Page 22: North-West
- Page 23: Pretoria: News – Reggae at the Bar by Molatelo Malowa
Opinion
- Page 11: Different arresting worldviews by Henri Benade, Free State Bar
- Page 48: Slices: Zelna’s victories are not only in court by Jean Meiring.
Forum
- Page 28: The changes brought by twenty years of constitutionalism in the South African legal order – Justice Zak Yacoob
- Page 32: The Constitution and intellectual property – Judge Mabel Jansen & Prof Owen Dean
- Page 37: Advocacy training: 20 years later – Tim Bruinders SC
- Page 41: Interest, usury, and the boni mores – Johan Moorcroft
- Page 44: The fusion of the legal profession – a Namibian perspective – Esi Schimming-Chase, Namibian Bar
From the Publishers
- Page 50: Ubuntu, Good Faith & Equity by Frank Diedrich – reviewed by DS Hodge, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 50: Hidden Scandal, Secret Shame – Torture and Ill-treatment of Children – Amnesty International Publications – reviewed by DS Hodge, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 50: Hockly’s Insolvency Law Ninth edition by R Sharrock et al – reviewed by Johannes Burger, Johannesburg Bar
Fly
- Page 52: Fly on the wall