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Franny Rabkin
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Editorial committee
Frank Snyckers SC (chair)
Sechaba Mohapi
Gregory Solik
Zandile Qono
Songo Ntsaluba
Quentin du Plessis
Sandhya Mahabeer SC
Loyiso Makapela
Jean Meiring
Nevenka Ristik
Muhammad Zakaria Suleman
Ahditya Kissoon Singh SC
(ex officio – GCB chair)
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De Jesus, Denise Greyling-Coetzer and Zodwa Gumede
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Gqeberha: James Ramsay
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Editorial
- Page 1 From The Editor
Index
- Page 2 In this issue
GCB & National News
- Page 3 AFT condemns the murder of prosecutor Tracy Brown: An attack on justice, democracy and the rule of law
- Page 5 AFT statement on the appointment of Judge President Dunstan Mlambo as Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa
- Page 6 The Sydney and Felicia Kentridge award for service to law in Southern Africa 2025
- Page 8 The GCBSA Future Leaders’ Symposium by Malebogo Mashishi, Pretoria Bar, Thabile Ngubeni, Free State Bar and Michelle Schoeman, Cape Bar
- Page 10 Showcasing African family law by Stuart Humphrey, Durban Bar
Bar News
- Page 11 Namibia Bar
- Page 12 Free State Bar
- Page 14 Johannesburg Bar
- Page 17 KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 24 Eastern Cape Bar – Makhanda
- Page 26 Mthatha Society of Advocates
- Page 30 Mpumalanga Bar
- Page 32 Pretoria Bar
- Page 38 Western Cape Bar
Forum: Artificial Intelligence
- Page 39 Artificial intelligence & the advocates’ profession by the GCB’s AI Committee
- Page 40 Artificial intelligence in law: Threat or Tool? by Gavin Rome SC
- Page 43 The benefits and risks of employing artificial intelligence in the legal profession by Futhi Cabe, KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 47 Legal profession’s global challenge with the uncritical use of artificial intelligence by Celinhlanhla Magubane, UKZN School of Law
- Page 51 Safeguarding children in the age of generative AI by Jolanda Pretorius, Pretoria Bar
- Page 54 Artificial intelligence in legal practice by Tiro Makgatho, North West Bar
Forum
- Page 56 An important judgment with no reasons wrongly decided 62 years ago by Judge Ezra Goldstein
- Page 59 The challenges of navigating civil and customary marriage regimes by Bennedict Moshoeu, advocate affiliated with the Limpopo Society of Advocates, Konanani Raligilia, department of jurisprudence, UNISA and Lufuno Nevondwe, department of mercantile law, University of Limpopo
- Page 61 What happens to ilobolo upon the dissolution of a customary marriage? by Bonga Zulu, Durban Bar
- Page 64 State of Human Rights: Transitional Justice and the Unfinished Business of the TRC Address to the Durban University of Technology, Department of Applied Law by Muhammad Zakaria Suleman, KwaZulu-Natal Bar
- Page 68 When courts rebuke courts: Lessons from the Constitutional Court’s criticism of the SCA in Makate II by Vuyani Ngalwana, PABASA
- Page 75 From the publishers: Devenish on Interpretation: Statutory Interpretation by Annie Singh and G. E Devenish reviewed by Gregory Solik, Cape Bar
- Page 76 From the publishers: Labour Court Manual
by Connie Prinsloo and André van Niekerk
reviewed by Sechaba Mohapi, Johannesburg Bar
Law Matters
- Page 77 Law Matters by Franny Rabkin
Fly on the Wall
- Page 80 Fly on the Wall