Table of Contents: Vol 17 • No 3 • December 2004

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Editorial committee
WHG van der Linde SC (chair)
N Arendse SC
L Fichardt
A Gabriel
IJ Smuts SC
FA Snyckers
Bar representatives
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Cape: A Sholto-Douglas
Free State: GJM Wright
Grahamstown: I Smuts SC
Johannesburg: C Watt-Pringle SC
KwaZulu-Natal: W Bowler
Northern Cape: J Schreuder
North West: J Stander
Port Elizabeth: P Kroon
Pretoria: HS Havenga
Umtata: MH Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
- Page 2: Challenges facing the Bar by Norman Arendse SC
- Page 3: New GCB chair: Norman Arendse SC by Dumisa Ntsebeza, Cape Bar
GCB News
- Page 4: Chair’s report, 2003-2004 by Willem van der Linde SC
- Page 7: Judicial Services Commission by Milton Seligson SC, Cape Bar
- Page 8: Pupillage: the rule changes and supervised practice by AJ Dickson SC, KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 9: Legal Aid by H Saldulker and P Mokoe
- Page 9: George Bizos SC honoured
- Page 10: Professional Provident Society by Ralph Meyer SC
- Page 12: Bursary Committee by Gerrit Pretorius SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 12: Professional Ethics by PJ Olsen SC, Durban Bar
- Page 12: Parliamentary Committee by Owen Rogers SC, Cape Bar
- Page 13: Human Rights Committee by Brian Spilg SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 13: 2004 Young Leaders Seminar by Owen Rogers SC, Cape Bar
Names in the News
- Page 14: New judges
Bar news
- Page 15: Port Elizabeth contributed by Peter Kroon, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 15: Noord-Kaap bygeda deur Japie Schreuder
- Page 16: KwaZulu-Natal contributed by Wendalynn Bowler, Durban Bar
- Page 16: Pretoria bygedra deur Henk Havenga
- Page 17: Cape contributed by Mark Greig
- Page 18: Johannesburg contributed by C Watt-Pringle SC
- Page 22: Vrystaat bygedra deur Germa Wright
We remember…
Forum
- Page 24: Whither the institution of silk? by Seth Nthai, Pretoria Bar
- Page 26: Silk: why it should go by Owen Rogers SC, Cape Bar
- Page 28: Integrating IT into legal practice: 2 by Steve Kirk-Cohen SC, Cape Bar
- Page 30: What to look for in an advocate by Alick Costa
- Page 31: Judicially crafted extended crime of corruption ‘repealed’ by HJ Benade, Free State Bar
- Page 32: Preparing an argument by Chris Marnewick SC
- Page 34: Blindness no bar by HF Marlow
- Page 35: AA Roberts QC by Pat Ellis SC, Pretorias Balie
- Page 37: ‘When judges fail justice’ by Edwin Cameron
From the publishers
- Page 45: Booysen Principles of International Trade Law reviewed by Ig Bredenkamp, Pretoria Bar
- Page 45: Hund (ed) Witchcraft Violence reviewed by Susannah Cowen, Cape Bar
- Page 46: Visser and Potgieter’s Law of Damages reviewed by Henk Haveng, Pretoria Bar
- Page 46: Forsyth Private International Law reviewed by Frank Snyckers, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 47: Burman (ed) Fate of the Child reviewed by Barbara Gassner, Cape Bar
- Page 47: Van den Berg Bail: a Practitioner’s Guide reviewed by Izak Smuts, Grahamstown Bar
- Page 47: Everingham Understanding company accounts reviewed by Izak Smuts, Grahamstown Bar
Fly on the wall
- Page 48: Fly on the wall