Table of Contents: Vol 34 • No 2 • August 2021
Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Marilena Maddison
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Craig Watt-Pringle SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Sasha e Câmara
Free State: Inga Macakati
Grahamstown: Thomas Miller
Johannesburg: Michael Williams KwaZulu-Natal: Carol Sibiya, Sarah Pudifin-Jones and Nooreen Nursoo
Namibia: Esi Schimming-Chase
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: John Stander
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Port Elizabeth: Morné Olivier
Pretoria: Alex Politis
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
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Editorial
- Page 1 FROM THE EDITOR
Index
- Page 2 In this issue
Chair’s contribution
Bar News
- Page 7 Pretoria Bar
- Page 8 Free State Bar
- Page 10 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 18 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 20 Port Elizabeth/Gqeberha Bar
- Page 23 Cape Bar
Forum
- Page 24 The cab rank rule
- Page 26 Statement by Edwin Cameron
- Page 27 Statement by Dinah Rose QC
- Page 29 Ms Dinah Rose QC and the homophobic brief – A test of principle by Gilbert Marcus SC
- Page 33 The cab rank rule – From where does it hail? by Patrick Wainwright, Cape Bar
- Page 35 Time for some realism about the cab rank rule by Geoff Budlender SC
Slice of Life
- Page 37 One angel hardly a choir of seriatim makes by Jean Meiring, Johannesburg Bar
Law Matters
- Page 38 Law Matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 40 Fly on the Wall