Table of Contents: Vol 21 • No 3 • December 2008

EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
Tel 082 961 7696
Editorial committee
Jannie Eksteen SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC,
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Bar representatives
Bhisho: vacant
Cape: Anton Kruger
Free State: Zachia Eloff, Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
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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GCB Chair’s contribution
Judiciary
We remember…
Tribute
GCB News
- Page 3: Profile of the new GCB chair, Patric M Mtshaulana SC
- Page 8: Media statements – Stop the attacks on the judiciary
- Page 8: Media statements – New SA Cabinet
- Page 8: New Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development
- Page 10: GCB chair’s annual report 2007/2008. Jannie Eksteen SC, outgoing chair of the General
Council of the Bar of South Africa - Page 14: Judicial Service Commission report by Milton Seligson SC. GCB representative on the
Judicial Service Commission (JSC) - Page 16: Human Rights – Overcrowded prisons, Zimbabwe and the judiciary, Brian Spilg SC,
-convenor of the GCB Human Rights Committee - Page 16: Pupillage programme continues to flourish. Glenn Goosen SC, Port Elizabeth. New national
pupillage coordinator - Page 19: Advocacy training. Sharise Weiner SC, convenor of the GCB Advocacy Training Committee
- Page 20: Format for pupillage 2009
- Page 22: Bursary Committee
Bar news
- Page 23: Free State. Contributed by Henriette Murray
- Page 24: Port Elizabeth. Contributed by Peter Kroon
- Page 24: Impressions of a conference by David Smith, Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 26: Cape Bar. Why a Beppe Grillo or a Zapiro? Anton Kruger
- Page 28: Johannesburg: 63rd anniversary celebration of the GCB. Contributed by Shirnae Londt-
Jacobs, Johannesburg Bar - Page 29: Advanced Advocacy Training at Keble College by Graham Girdwood, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 30: North West. Contributed by John Stander
- Page 30: KwaZulu-Natal. Contributed by John Stander
- Page 31: Pretoria. Contributed by Henk Havenga SC
- Page 31: In Memoriam; Mac Jooste SC. Pretoria Bar
- Page 32: Denali by Ben Swart SC, Pretoria Bar
Forum
- Page 34: The need for the independence of the judiciary and of the legal profession by Justice
Edwin Cameron of the Supreme Court of Appeal - Page 37: The Young Bar by Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann of the Transvaal High Court
- Page 39: The Legal Service Charter: Black skills development and procurement by Vuyani Ngalwana,
Johannesburg Bar - Page 41: Reflections on justice by Kate O’Regan, Constitutional Court Justice, as panellist at the
World Bar Conference in Dublin in June 2008 - Page 45: Judicial restraint is judicial wisdom by Patric M Mtshaulana SC. Chair of the General Council
of the Bar of SA, Johannesburg - Page 47: From Calvados and Klipgooiers to Cape Town by Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
From the publishers
- Page 49: High Court Motion Procedures by MM Joffe et al. Reviewed by Alfred Cockrell, Johannesburg
Bar - Page 49: Advocacy Manual by G Hampel et al. Reviewed by Sharise Weiner SC, Johannesburg Bar.
Convenor of the GCB Advocacy Training Committee
Legal crossword
- Page 51: Legal Crossword Number 6
FLY
- Page 52: Fly on the wall