Table of Contents: Vol 20 • No 3 • December 2007
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Tel 082 961 7696
Editorial committee
Jannie Eksteen SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC,
Alfred Cockrell,
Susannah Cowen,
Jannie Eksteen SC,
Sandhya Mahabeer,
Mahlape Sello,
lzak Smuts SC
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Anton Kruger
Free State: Zachia Eloff, Henriette Murray
Grahamstown: Izak Smuts SC
Johannesburg: David Leibowitz
KwaZulu-Natal: Wendalynn Bowler, Paul Wallis, Zuleka Rasool.
Namibia: Andrew Corbett
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
We remember
GCB News
- Page 7: A challenging year: GCB chair’s annual report 2006/7. Jannie Eksteen SC, chair of the
General Council of the Bar of South Africa - Page 11: Advocacy Training. Sharise Weiner SC, convenor of the Advocacy Training Committee (ATC)
- Page 11: Bursary Committee: more money and new method of allocation needed. Gerrit Pretorius SC
convenor of the Bursary Committee - Page 12: Legal Provident Fund: noteworthy improvements. Jacques Basson, representative of
the GCB on the board - Page 12: Human Rights Committee: Judicial Bills and overcrowded prisons by Brian Spilg SC,
convenor of the GCB Human Rights Committee - Page 13: Judicial Service Commission: Delays in the delivery of reserved judgments and complaints
against judges considered. Report by Milton Seligson SC, GCB representative on the JSC - Page 14: Pupillage: the latest. AJ (Spicko) Dickson SC, KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 16: Press release on the question whether retired judges should take on work with ministerial
permission
Bar news
- Page 18: Pretoria Bar contributed by Henk Havenga, Pretoria Bar
- Page 19: KwaZulu-Natal: A tribute to Douglas Shaw QC by David Gordon SC, KwaZulu-Natal Bar,
Durban - Page 22: Port Elizabeth contributed by Peter Kroon, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 22: Grahamstown contributed by Izak Smuts SC, Grahamstown Bar
- Page 22: Johannesburg: Group 21 hosts event to further transformation initiative
- Page 23: Johannesburg: Advocacy training
- Page 23: Johannesburg: The Red Bag
- Page 24: Cape: Alien Invasion III: Yellow Cranes in a Big Hole by Anton Kruger, Cape Bar
- Page 28: Cape: Good hope for litigation reform by Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
- Page 31: Johannesburg: A cure for Middle Age by Bruce Leech and Paul Belger, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 32: Johannesburg: Trial advocacy skills training. Lessons from the National Institute for Trial
-Advocacy. Louis Gumbi, Johannesburg Bar
Forum
- Page 33: “Judge Hlophe betrayed the nation with his greed” Former Constitutional Court Justice
Johann Kriegler wrote in The Sunday Times of 7 October 2007 - Public statement by senior counsel: Cape Bar. Schalk Burger SC, Michael Fitzgerald SC,
Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Peter Hodes SC, Rob Petersen SC, Les Rose-Innes SC,
Nic Treurnicht SC, Henri Viljoen SC, Renata Williams SC - Page 35: Lest we forget… by MS Navsa, Supreme Court of Appeal, Bloemfontein
- Page 37: The prevalence of acting judges in the High Court – is it consistent with an independent
judiciary? by Johan Trengove, Cape Bar - Page 40: Computer programs’: one of those dark, as yet uncharted precincts of ‘intellectual
property’ by Bert Bester, Johannesburg Bar - Page 44: Control on direct examination in American trial practice: Part 2 Preparation, selection and
organisation by Willem H Gravett, New York State Bar - Page 50: Crime and sentencing in the ‘new’ South Africa: A brief perspective. By Leon Vermaak,
forensic criminologist in private practice, Port Elizabeth
From the publishers
Legal Crossword
- Page 55: Legal Crossword Number 3
FLY
- Page 56: Fly on the wall