Table of Contents: Vol 22 • No 3 • December 2009
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Jannie Eksteen SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC,
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Patrick Mtshaulana SC
Mahlape Sello
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Frans Rautenbach
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: David Leibowitz
KwaZulu-Natal: Rashid Vahed SC, Paul Wallis, Zuleka Rasool
Namibia: Raymond Heathcote
Northern Cape: Japie Schreuder
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: David Smith
Pretoria: Henk Havenga
Umtata: Mathobela Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
Judiciary
- Page 4: Retirement of Constitutional Court Justices: Tribute by Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
- Page 5: Tribute on behalf of the GCB by Willem van der Linde SC
Stop Press
Bar news
- Page 8: Cape: New judges by Marilena Ioannou, Cape Bar
- Page 10: Cape Bar maternity policy by Geoff Budlender SC, Cape Bar
- Page 11: Port Elizabeth Contributed by David Smith,Port Elizabeth Bar
- Page 12: Johannesburg: Student vacation programme: June/July 2009 By Louwrens Malan, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 12: Johannesburg: Advocacy training is fun By Stuart Wilson (completing pupillage at the Johannesburg Bar)
- Page 22: Johannesburg: Change at the Bar: Opening address: Future Bar Leaders Conference by Hilton Epstein SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 15: Pretoria by Henk Havenga SC, Pretoria Bar; The Bar examination • New Court Chambers • A bridge for Circle Chambers • Kombersprojek • Acting appointments/ waarnemende aanstellings
Better advocacy
- Page 16: Oral advocacy and judicial decisionmaking in the SA appellate courts by Stacia L Haynie, Vice Provost for Academics and Planning and the JW Annison Jr Family Alumni Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.
- Page 20: Heads of argument in courts of appeal by LTC Harms, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 22: Good legal writing by Carole Lewis, Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal
- Page 24: The way we write by Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Cape and Johannesburg Bars
- Page 26: Effective opening statements: Part 3 Strategy and delivery by Willem Gravett, New York State Bar
Forum
- Page 30: Draft Legal Practice Bill: Discussion paper submitted to the AFT (WLD) Committee on the LPB by Peter Makhambeni, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 32: The Judicial Service Commission: Quis custodiet custodes? by Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
- Page 34: The advocates’ profession and judicial selection by Susannah Cowen, Cape Bar
- Page 38: How to resolve civil cases and impress the public by Greg Harpur SC, Durban Bar
- Page 41: Is imprisonment in SA legally defensible? by Caryl Verrier, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 44: Zimbabwe: The war on law by Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Cape and Johannesburg Bars
Lawyers cricket
- Page 48: Lawyers Cricket World Cup by Bruce Leech, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 48: Message to the players by Hilton Epstein SC, chair of the Johannesburg Bar
Legal Crossword
- Page 51: Legal Crossword Number 9
- Page 14: Legal Crossword Number 9: Answers
Fly
- Page 52: Fly on the wall