Table of Contents: Vol 33 • No 2 • August 2020

Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Mushahida Adhikari
Mark Euijen SC
Marilena Maddison
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Craig Watt-Pringle SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Dirk Coetsee
Free State: Jacyn Mitchley
Grahamstown: Thomas Miller
Johannesburg: Kutlwano Motla
KwaZulu-Natal: Carol Sibiya, Sarah Pudifin-Jones and Nooreen Nursoo
Namibia: Esi Chase
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: John Stander
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Port Elizabeth: Morné Olivier
Pretoria: John Holland-Müter
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Editorial
- Page 1 FROM THE EDITOR
Index
- Page 2 In this issue
Chair’s contribution
GCB & National News
- Page 6 AFSA in the time of Covid-19
- Page 8 AFSA receives another accolade on the international arbitration stage
- Page 10 The silver lining of the Covid-19 cloud
Covid-19 Bar Survey
Bar News
- Page 22 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 30 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 32 Pretoria Bar
Forum
- Page 34 Covid-19 and the Courts: Justice in Lockdown by Judge Glenn Goosen
- Page 40 The Covid disaster: A Miscellany of Classroom Points by Frank Snyckers SC
- Page 45 Interview with the Covid-19 Designated Judge, Justice Kate O’Regan by Jean Meiring
- Page 48 Covid-19 and Human Rights – An assessment of 11 jurisdictions including South Africa by Dr Liora Lazarus & Dr Nick Friedman
- Page 57 Fake news, conspiracy theories and the threat to our constitutional democracy by Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
- Page 59 Rental Remissions for Advocates in the time of Covid-19 Entitlement or Impossibility? By D Mahon, S Ogunronbi & R Bekker
- Page 63 Sedley J’s Laws of Documents – Abrogated by Disuse by Richard Moultrie
- Page 67 Best Practice and Advocacy Skills for Remote Hearings by Anna Annandale SC
- Page 72 Gandhi the Lawyer by Judge Rishi Seegobin
From the Bars on Covid-19
- Page 75 Cape Bar
- Page 81 Free State Bar
- Page 82 Polokwane Bar
- Page 83 Pretoia Bar
From The Publishers
Law Matters
- Page 86 Law Matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 88 Fly on the Wall