Contents: Vol 4 • No 1 • April 1991

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CONSULTUS APRIL 1991
Redaksioneel • Editorial
- Page 2: Legitimering van regstelsel/Legitimising the legal system • Die openbare
verdedigerstelsel/The public defender system - Page 8: The Legal Professions – Pointers towards Structural Reforms by Dr JR Midgley
- Page 17: Nuwe Reger-president vir Transvaal: Regter CF Eloff
- Page 19: United States Supreme Court Appointments: Implications for a future constitution in South
Africa by Gawie Nienaber - Page 27: Response by Milton Seligson SC, Chairman of the General Council of the Bar of
South Africa - Page 29: Response by Prof Marinus Wiechers>
- Page 31: Three new Judges of Appeal
- Page 32: Contempt and the Bench by Prof SK Parmanand
- Page 35: Provokasie as ‘n Volkome Verweer in die Strafreg deur Prof CR Snyman
- Page 39: Mediaverklaring uitgereik deur die Regshulpraad op 22 Januarie 1991 – Die Openbare
Verdedigerstelsel - Page 40: Taxability of Awards of Damages for Loss of Earnings deur AS van der Spuy SC,
Johannesburg Bar
Bar News/ Balienuus
- Page 44: Johannesburg
- Page 44: Kaapstad
- Page 44: Pretoria
- Page 46: Oranje-Vrystaat
- Page 46: Natal
- Page 46: Eastern Cape
- Page 47: Kimberley
- Page 47: Bophuthatswana
- Page 47: Ciskei
- Page 48: Namibia
- Page 49: Die Regsfakulteit, Universiteit van Pretoria: Meer as Tagtig Jaar Regsonderrig deur Prof
Kobus van Rooyen SC - Page 54: The Industrial Court by DJ de Villiers SC, The President of the Court
- Page 56: International Bar Association: News and developments by Milton Seligson SC, Chairman:
GCB - Page 58: Confession to peace officer in the person of a police officer by Pranil Singh, Durban Bar
- Page 60: In Memoriam: Tribute to Brian Law J and Tribute to Bristowe J by Natal Bench
- Page 63: Projecting the Right Image by Grenville Janner QC MP
- Page 65: Obiter… by Viator
- Unfair attack on advocates’ profession: The true picture, supplement to Consultus, April
1991