Table of Contents: Vol 15 • No 3 • December 2002
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Editorial committee
WHG van der Linde SC (chair)
E Fagan
A Gabriel
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Bar representatives
Bisho: TV Norman
Cape: P Weyer
Free State: GJM Wright
Grahamstown: I Smuts SC
Johannesburg: J Wasserman SC, C Pringle-Watt
KwaZulu-Natal: W Bowler
Northern Cape: J Schreuder
North West: J Stander
Port Elizabeth: P Kroon
Pretoria: HS Havenga
Umtata: MH Sishuba
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©General Council of the Bar of SA
Stop press
- Page 2: Exco meeting on 12 October
- Page 9: Forum for Barristers and Advocates
Chairman’s contribution
- Page 3: Competition and one other issue
GCB News
- Page 4: GCB Awards
- Page 5: IBA Conference contributed by AJ Dickson, Durban Bar
- Page 6: Pupillage by John Mullins SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 7: Referral rule: judgment
- Page 8: Arrest and detention of Zimbabwean judge
- Page 8: SA Fellowship of advocacy trainers
- Page 8: Legal aid report by Halima Saldulker and Philip Mokoena
International Bar Association
- Page 10: Corruption and lack of justice in Malawi
- Page 10: Attack on Zimbabwean judge
Bar news
- Page 13: North West contributed by John Stander, Mafikeng
- Page 13: KwaZulu-Natal contributed by W Bowler, Durban Bar
- Page 13: Vrystaat bygedra deur Germa Wright, Bloemfontein
- Page 14: Port Elizabeth contributed by Peter Kroon, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 14: Pretoria bygedra deur Henk Havenga
- Page 15: Grahamstown contributed by Izak Smuts SC
- Page 16: Johannesburg Bar
Bars around the world
- Page 18: Zimbabwe: human rights and the independent Bar by Adrian de Bourbon SC
- Page 22: The Bar in Scotland by Roy Martin QC
- Page 23: The Bar in Australia by Glen Martin SC
- Page 24: The Bar of Ireland by Frank Clarke SC
- Page 25: Foreign lawyers at the Paris Bar by Reshma Inderjeeth, Cape Bar
- Page 27: The Bar in New Zealand by Chris Marnewick SC
Forum
- Page 28: Johannesburg Bar 100 by Chief Justice Chaskalson
- Page 30: A Bar for women? by Lilla Grouse, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 32: Public interest law: its continuing role in South Africa by Fayeeza Kathree, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 35: Disability at the Bar – a frank discussion by Samun Barua, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 36: Dialogue with the deaf – or is someone listening? By PM Nienaber
Fly on the wall
- Page 40: Fly on the wall
Travel Notes
- Page 41: Islands in the sun by Hans Fabricius SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 42: Mont Blanc 2002 by PF Louw, Johannesburg Bar