Table of Contents: Vol 27 • No 3 • December 2014
OUTGOING EDITOR
Hennie Mellet
hfmellet@telkomsa.net
082 961 7696
Editorial committee
Patric Mtshaulana SC (chair)
Frank Snyckers SC (deputy chair)
Johan Brand
Richard Brooks SC
Marilena Ioannou
Sandhya Mahabeer
Jean Meiring
Mahlape Sello
Lwandile Sisilana
Jeremy Muller SC (ex officio – GCB chair)
BAR REPRESENTATIVES
Cape: Luke Kelly
Free State: Henriette Murray
Grahamstown: Thomas Muller
Johannesburg: Clayton Vetter
KwaZulu-Natal: Laurence Broster SC, Sarah Linscot, Kerusha Pillay
Namibia: Esi Chase
Northern Cape: Lizanne van Niekerk
North West: John Stander
Port Elizabeth: Steve Rorke SC, Anusha Rawjee
Pretoria: Thys Snyman
Mthatha: Vusi Msiwa
EDITORIAL INFORMATION
Advocate is the journal of the General Council of the Bar (GCB). Except in the case of official press releases or statements, published as such, the views expressed by individual contributors of articles and items in Advocate do not purport to be the views of the editorial committee of Advocate, or the official views of the GCB, but remain the views of the individual contributors.
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Chair’s contribution
GCB news – Editor Retires, Advocacy Course
- Page 6: We say goodbye to our editor, Hennie Mellet.
- Page 10: GCB’s inaugural Intermediate Advocacy Course held
GCB news – Talking Heads
GCB news – The GCB’s Human Rights Committee
GCB news – PUPILLAGE
GCB news – PUPILLAGE
- Page 15: Format for pupillage 2015
GCB news – Kuala Lumpur
- Page 17: Hospitable KL draws local trainers.
Bar news
- Page 18: Eastern Cape: Bullrun, Cricket and Grahamstown.
- Page 20: KwaZulu-Natal: Bar Dinner, Society AGM.
- Page 21: David Gordon SC – 50 years of practice.
- Page 23: North West: Dr Henry Lever SC
- Page 24: Johannesburg: Johannesburg Bar looks for housing
- Page 25: The wait for letters patent end.
- Page 26: Stais SC honoured as Good Samaritan in China.
- Page 26: Tribute: Hemingway would have listened.
- Page 28: Tribute: He had joie de vivre.
- Page 29: Pretoria: Pupillage at the Pretoria Bar offered a range of products
Forum
- Page 32: The supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law in theory and practice
- Page 37: The appointment of public servants as judges – does it undermine the independence of the judiciary?
- Page 42: Why advocacy matters – what matters in advocacy?
Slices
- Page 45: Liversage rides to freedom by Jean Meiring, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 47: A Swiss roll of another sort by Jean Meiring, Johannesburg Bar.
- Page 48: ‘Hoese?’ A tale of hearing loss at the Bar.
From the Publishers
Fly
- Page 52: Fly on the wall