Table of Contents: Vol 18 • No 3 • December 2005
EDITOR
HF Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Editorial committee
WHG van der Linde SC (chair)
N Arendse SC,
A Cockrell,
S Cowen,
S Mahabeer,
M Sello,
IJ Smuts SC,
FA Snyckers
Bar representatives
Bisho: Vacant.
Cape: A Kruger.
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: The IBA conference in Prague. Norman Arendse SC, chair of the General Council
of the Bar of South Africa - Page 30: The restructuring of the Bar. Norman Arendse SC, chair of the General Council
of the Bar of South Africa
GCB News
- Page 4: Judicial Service Commission by Milton Seligson SC, Cape Bar; GCB representative on the
JSC for the period July 2004 to June 2005 - Page 5: Parliamentary Committee. Report by Ashton Schippers SC, Chair, Cape Bar Council
- Page 5: Human Rights Committee. Brian Spilg SC, Johannesburg Bar; convenor, Human Rights
Committee of the GCB - Page 6: Laws and Administration Committee. Abraham Louw, Pretoria Bar
- Page 6: Legal Provident Fund (LPD). JL Basson, Pretoria Bar; GCB representative
on the LPF - Page 6: Professional Provident Society by Ralph Meyer SC, Johannesburg Bar; GCB representative
on the PPS - Page 7: Pius Langa Scholarship
- Page 7: GCB press releases: The judicial process: Cosatu and the Scorpions
- Page 7: NEPAD: The role of lawyers in the African Renaissance
- Page 8: The rule of law: GCB press statement
- Page 9: The Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill of 2005 by John Mullins SC, Pretoria Bar; convenor
of the GCB MVA Committee - Page 10: Pretoria and Johannesburg Bars: expert workshops. Report by Andre Gautschi SC
(Johannesburg), Sharise Weiner SC (Johannesburg), John Mullins SC (Pretoria),
Carlos da Silva (Pretoria), and Gerhard Naude (Pretoria) - Page 11: Expert workshop of September 2005. Impressions by Paul de Villiers, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 11: English language course 2005 by John Mullins SC, Pretoria Bar
- Page 12: Pupillage format 2006 by AJ (Spicko) Dickson SC, KwaZulu-Natal Bar; National Pupillage
Co-ordinator - Page 13: IBA: Spring meeting in Lisbon by Jannie Eksteen SC, deputy chair of the GCB
- Page 14: Advocacy training at Oxford: The South Eastern Circuit Advanced Advocacy Course 2005.
Contributed by Eberhard Bertelsmann, judge of the Transvaal High Court - Page 16: Compulsory continuing legal education – yes or no? by Sharise Weiner SC, Johannesburg
Bar; convenor of the GCB Advocacy Training Committee
Bar news
- Page 18: Cape: Passionate people at the Cape Bar: Dumisa Ntsebeza and Sheriff Mohamed
by Anton Kruger, Cape Bar - Page 21: Milton Seligson – 50 years on by John Butler
- Page 22: KwaZulu-Natal: New silks by Wendalynn Bowler
- Page 22: KwaZulu-Natal: Wigs on by Zuleka Rasool
- Page 24: Pretoria deur Henk Havenga
- Page 25: Vrystaat deur Germa Wright
- Page 26: Port Elizabeth by Peter Kroon
- Page 26: Bisho: New silk Viwe Notshe SC
- Page 26: Johannesburg: English QCs tell us about commercial mediation. By Craig Watt-Pringle SC
- Page 26: Johannesburg: Group One and transformation. By Ivan Miltz and Thabo Molokomme
Names in the news
Forum
- Page 30: The restructuring of the Bar by Norman Arendse SC, Cape Bar, GCB Chair
- Page 32: Executive control over the judiciary by L Mpati, Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 34: Integrating IT into legal practice: part 4 by Steve Kirk-Cohen, Cape Bar
- Page 36: Submissions and views by EL Goldstein, judge of the High Court, Witwatersrand Local
Division - Page 37: The rule of law and unsatisfied judgments against the State: some thoughts by AG
Dugmore, Grahamstown Bar - Page 39: Contempt of court or contempt of rights? The flood of litigation against the KwaZulu-Natal
MEC for Social Welfare. By Daisy Sridutt, Durban Bar - Page 42: The Untouchables v Zuma: heavy on artillery – thin on law. By Brian Spilg SC,
Johannesburg Bar - Page 45: Is Zimbabwe revisiting the SA High Court of Parliament chronicle? by Terri-Lee Dix,
Johannesburg Bar - Page 47: Breaking through glass ceilings. By Susannah Cowen, Cape Bar
- Page 50: The junior Bar – issues of national interest. By Fatimah Essop, Cape Bar
Letters to the editor
- Page 52: The silk route by Bert Bester, Pretoria and Johannesburg Bars
- Page 53: Racism on the Bench? By PAM Magid, Durban
From the publishers
- Page 55: Workplace Law Eight edition. Reviewed by RG Beaton, Pretoria Bar
- Page 55: Principles of Criminal Law Third edition. Reviewed by Lauren Conlyn, Grahamstown Bar
FLY
- Page 56: Fly on the wall