Table of Contents: Vol 19 • No 3 • December 2006

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Editorial committee
Willem van der Linde SC (chair)
Alfred Cockrell,
Susannah Cowen,
Jannie Eksteen SC,
Sandhya Mahabeer,
Mahlape Sello,
lzak Smuts SC
Frank Snyckers
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant.
Cape: Anton Kruger.
Free State: Zachia Eloff, Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Izak Smuts SC.
Johannesburg: Craig Watt-Pringle SC.
KwaZulu-Natal: Wendalynn Bowler, Hoosen Gani, Zuleka Rasool.
Northern Cape: Japie Schreuder.
North West: John Stander.
Port Elizabeth: Peter Kroon.
Pretoria: Henk Havenga.
Umtata: Mathobela Shisuba.
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Chair’s contribution
- Page 2: Legal Services Sector Charter and Transformation by Jannie Eksteen SC,
chair of the General Council of the Bar of South Africa - Page 3: Rule of law symposium and IBA Annual conference. Report by Jannie Eksteen SC,
GCB chair, who attended the IBA meeting in Chicago during September 2006
GCB news
- Page 5: Report of the GCB chair, Norman Arendse SC, at the annual general meeting of the GCB
on 21-22 July 2006 - Page 6: Human Rights Report by Brian Spilg SC, convenor of the GCB Human Rights Committee
- Page 7: Judicial Services Commission Report by Milton Seligson SC, the GCB representative on
the JSC, for the period July 2005-June 2006 - Page 8: Advocacy Training Report by Sharise Weiner SC, convenor of the GCB Advocacy Training
Committee - Page 9: Legal Aid Board – Extracts from the report by Letty Molopa SC, the GCB representative
on the Legal Aid Board - Page 10: Future Leaders’ Symposium. Report by Glenn Goosen SC, deputy chair of the Eastern Cape Bar, to the annual general meeting of the GCB on the Third Future Leaders’ Symposium held at Port Elizabeth on 14-15 July 2006
- Page 10: Extracts from other reports: Road Accident Fund Subcommittee
Professional Ethics Committee
Bar news
- Page 11: KwaZulu-Natal by Wendalynn Bowler, Durban
- Page 11: KwaZulu-Natal: Congratulations, Archie Findlay SC by Michelle Moodley
- Page 12: Noord-Kaap deur Johan van Niekerk SC
- Page 12: Port Elizabeth by Peter Kroon
- Page 13: Pretoria deur Henk Havenga
- Page 14: Pretoria: Transalp – 2006 by Ben Swart SC
- Page 14: The late Judge Victor Hiemstra 9/6/1914-1/5/2006 by Henk Havenga
- Page 16: Johannesburg: On diversity management by Sesi Baloyi
- Page 16: Johannesburg: Gender and race sensitivity seminar by Terrence Ossin
- Page 17: Johannesburg Bar: London Bar excursion: Practice Management System and
Transformation by Roshnee Mansingh and Ishmael Semenya SC, members of the Johannesburg Bar Interim Council and Transformation Committee - Page 20:Johannesburg: The Freedom Ride. Something worthwhile to do in the winter recess
by Gerrit Pretorius SC
Forum
- Page 25: Cross-examining expert witnesses in American trial practice
Part 1: Fundamental principles by Willem H Gravett, New York State Bar - Page 27: Room for a view by HCJ Flemming, former Deputy Judge President of the Witwatersrand
Local Division of the Transvaal High Court - Page 28:Transformation by Roshnee Mansingh, Johannesburg Bar. Member of the Johannesburg
Bar Interim Council - Page 30: The Draft Legal Services Charter: Where are we going? by Paul Hoffman SC, director,
Centre for Constitutional Rights, Cape Town
From the publishers
- Page 32: The Law of Sale and Lease reviewed by Frank Snyckers
- Page 32: Water Law reviewed by WG Burger SC
- Page 32: Essential Security Law reviewed by Karrisha Pillay
- Page 33: Die hof verdaag geresenseer deur Hennie Mellet. Redakteur: Advocate
Forum
- Page 34: Fly on the wall
Special section on pupillage
- Page 35: One-year pupillage: a review by AJ Dickson SC, KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 42: Improving our pupillage system step-by-step by Chris Marnewick SC,
KwaZulu-Natal Bar, Durban - Page 46: Teaching for quality learning: A report on the Analytic Legal Writing Course
by Toni Gottlieb and Lorraine Chaskalson, Johannesburg Bar