Table of Contents: Vol 12 • No 4 • December 1999
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Chair’s contribution
Letters to the editor
GCB News
- Page 5: Exco meeting report by Jeremy Gauntlett SC
- Page 6: The new look legal aid: Calamity or catalyst? Roland Sutherland SC. Vice-chair of the
General Council of the Bar and chair of the Johannesburg Bar - Page 35: 12th Commonwealth Law Conference report by Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Cape Bar, GCB chair
- Page 36: Gray’s Inn new practitioners workshop by A J Dickson SC, Pietermaritzburg Bar
Bar news
- Page 7: Johannesburg contributed by Marius van Wyk, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 7: Noord–Kaap bygedra deur JJ Schreuder, Kimberley
- Page 7: Natal contributed by Shelley Walker, Durban
- Page 7: Vrystaat bygedra deur Ilse Potgieter, Bloemfontein
- Page 7: Pretoria bygedra deur Bill Prinsloo SC, Pretoria
Why the Bar?
- Page 9: Transformation of the legal profession: Response by the GCB
- Page 17: The importance of an independent Bar in South Africa by Justice P N Langa, Deputy
President of the Constitutional Court - Page 19: Of holy cows and china shops by Justice Johann Kriegler, Judge of the Constitutional Court
Johannesburg - Page 21: Will the Bar survive? by Malcolm Wallis SC, Durban Bar
- Page 23: Let us not change the essential fabric of the Bar by George Bizos SC, Johannesburg Bar
Member of the Legal Resources Centre’s Constitutional Litigation Unit - Page 25: Transformation of the legal profession: Some thoughts by Patric Mzolisi Mtshaulana,
Johannesburg Bar - Page 28: Advantages of the divided Bar: A view from American experience by Gerald Josman SC,
Judge of the Cape High Court - Page 31: Legal practitioners in New South Wales by Ig Bredenkamp, Pretoria Bar
- Page 32: Fusion of the legal profession by Seth Nthai, Pretoria Bar
- Page 33: Obiter … Fusion in other countries