Editor
Franny Rabkin
franny.rabkin@gcbsa.co.za
Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Nathi Dwayi
Nevenka Ristic
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Loyiso Makapela
Jean Meiring
Lwandile Sisilana SC
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Quentin du Plessis
Gregory Solik
(ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Gregory Solik
Free State: Amelia Swanepoel
Grahamstown: Cameron Corden
Johannesburg: Sibongile Mathe
KwaZulu-Natal: Nooreen Nursoo and Zandile Qono
Namibia: Retha Steinmann
Northern Cape: Albert Eillert
North West: Thabile Sebitlo
Polokwane: Nathi Gaisa
Gqeberha: James Ramsay
Pretoria: Megan Moodley
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ISSN 1683-2566
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Editorial
- Page 1 From the Editor
Index
- Page 2 In this Issue
GCB & National News
- Page 3 VIII BRICS Legal Forum
- Page 6 Statements for South Africa to the Legal G20
- Page 7 Vershen Moodley SC tribute
To the editor
The World Bar Conference
- Page 9 The World Bar Conference by Andrea A Gabriel SC, Durban Bar
- Page 11 Imperialism and uprisings, the independence of counsel and a World Bar Conference in Ireland by Peter Kroon SC, Gqeberha Bar
Bar News
- Page 15 Free State Bar
- Page 18 Gqeberha Bar
- Page 20 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 24 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 32 Namibia Bar
- Page 33 North-West Bar
- Page 34 Pretoria Bar
- Page 36 Western Cape Bar
Forum
- Page 48 Laurie Ackermann: The man behind the plaudits by Justice Johann Kriegler
- Page 53 ‘Make words your servants’: Oscar and Gustav Hoexter by Jeremy Gauntlett SC KC
- Page 59 Why Judges have a legitimate interest in briefing patterns and the power to mero motu enquire on them in proceedings by Sechaba Mohapi, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 66 Silk screening in Johannesburg: A mixed palette by Noel Graves SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 74 Judicial accountability: An era for consciousness by Thabile Sebitlo, North West Bar
Law Matters
- Page 77 by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 80 Fly on the Wall