Table of Contents: Vol 23 • No 3 • December 2010
EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
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Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers (deputy chair)
Azhar Bham SC
Richard Brooks
Alfred Cockrell
Susannah Cowen
Sandhya Mahabeer
Mahlape Sello
Lwandile Sisilane
Bar representatives
Bhisho: Vacant
Cape: Frans Rautenbach
Free State: Henriette Murray.
Grahamstown: Richard Brooks
Johannesburg: Anthea Platt, Ayesha Tiry, Dirk R van Zyl
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: D Obbes
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke
Pretoria: Henk Havenga
Mmtata: Mathobela Shisuba
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Chair’s contribution
Stop Press
GCB News
Press releases by the GCB
- Page 4: SADC rulings and the Government of Zimbabwe On 5 August 2010 by the SADC Lawyers Association
- Page 4: 17th Commonwealth Law Conference 2011
- Page 4: Advanced Advocacy Training at the Wallenberg, Stellenbosch University, 10-15 January 2011
- Page 5: The late Justice Tholakele Madala by RAK Vahed SC, Chairman, 27 August 2010
Bar news
- Page 6: Free State: News by Henriette Murray, Bloemfontein Bar • The Free State Bar hosted the 65th annual GCB conference in Bloemfontein from 24-26 July 2010 • Members
- Page 7: Cape Bar: Watching from the sideline by Andrew Brown, Cape Bar
- Page 8: Cape Bar: New judges, by Frans Rautenbach, Cape Bar
- Page 10: Eastern Cape Bar: Port Elizabeth – A change is as good as a holiday • New senior counsel by S Rorke SC and A Rawjee, Eastern Cape Bar
- Page 11: Eastern Cape Bar: Grahamstown – New senior counsel
- Page 12: The Namibian Bar By R Heathcote SC, president, Society of Advocates of Namibia
- Page 14: Johannesburg: By Dirk R van Zyl High Court Library • Swimming championships 2010 – Sweden
- Page 16: KwaZulu-Natal: Prepared by Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis and Kerusha Pillay, New Bar Council
- Page 16: KwaZulu-Natal: Prepared by Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis and Kerusha Pillay, The new GCB chairman: Rashid Vahed SC
- Page 17: KwaZulu-Natal: Prepared by Laurence Broster SC, Andreas Coutsoudis and Kerusha Pillay, The Argus cycle tour
Special issue – Middle Temple and SA Conference
The rule of law under a written and unwritten constitution
- Page 18: Special issue Middle Temple and SA Conference Contents
- Page 19: What is Middle Temple?
- Page 19: Middle Temple visit a memorable success By Jean Meiring, Johannesburg Bar, and Frank Pelser, Cape Bar
- Page 24: Judicial independence – a substantive component? By Justice Edwin Cameron, judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
- Page 29: Judicial independence By Lord Mance, United Kingdom Supreme Court
- Page 33: Selecting judges: merit, moral courage, judgment and diversity By Lord Clarke of Stone- cum-Ebony, United Kingdom Supreme Court
- Page 40: Judicial appointments in South Africa By Justice DM Davis, judge of the Western Cape High Court and Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court
- Page 43: Judicial appointments By Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, former judge of the Constitutional Court
- Page 48: Judicial decisions By Justice Nial Fennelly, Irish Supreme Court and allocation of resources
- Page 51: The independence of the Bar By Baroness Deech, chairman, Bar Standards Board, England and Wales
- Page 55: The rule of law and an independent legal profession: a South African perspective Jeremy Gauntlett SC, member of the Cape and Johannesburg Bars, and of the Bar of England and Wales
- Page 58: The role of comparative and public international law in domestic legal systems By William Binchy, Emeritus Regius Professor at Trinity College, Dublin
- Page 63: The role of comparative and public international law in domestic legal systems: a South African perspective By Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa
Forum
- Page 67: Decision-making in trial advocacy By Chris Marnewick SC, Durban Bar
- Page 70: The family business curtailed? By Justice Malcolm Wallis, judge of the Kwazulu-Natal High Court
- Page 75: Cheques and balances – a way forward By Justice HCJ Flemming, former Deputy Judge President of the then Transvaal Provincial Division
- Page 78: ‘n Maand in die vreemde – Deel 2 deur Altus Joubert SC, Johannesburgse Balie
From the Publishers
- Page 81: Fuggle and Rabie’s Environmental Management in South Africa. Second edition by HA Strydom and ND King; reviewed by Glen Goddard and Sandhya Mahabeer, Durban Bar
- Page 82: Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in South Africa: Legal Perspectives. Edited by Alexander Paterson and Louis J Kotzé reviewed by Glen Goddard, Durban Bar
Legal Crossword
- Page 83: Legal Crossword Number 12
- Page 81: Legal Crossword Number 12: Answers
Fly
- Page 84: Fly on the wall