Table of Contents: Vol 12 • No 1 • March 1999
REDAKSIEKOMITEE
HF Mellet (Redakteur)
MC Botha SC
WRE Duminy SC
PB Hodes SC
CB Mann
P Pauw
r Potgieter
WRC Prinsloo SC
RL Selvan SC
WHG van der Linde SC
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Editorial • Redaksioneel
- Page 2: First quarterly issue
- Page 2: The judiciary in Zimbabwe
Chairman’s contribution
Letters to the editor
- Page 4: Is the Constitution our bane? by Saber Ahmed Jazbhay Attorney, Qualbert
- Page 4: Conference on advocacy by Mr Justice H G Squires, High Court, Durban
GCB News
- Page 5: Executive committee meeting by Report by Halima Saldulkar, assistant honorary secretary
- Page 5: The future of the legal profession in SA by Peter Hodes SC, chairman GCB
- Page 7: IBA conference by Peter Hodes SC, chairman GCB
- Page 7: Legal Aid by Cynthia Pretorius, Pretoria Bar and Johann Gautschi SC
- Page 40: Road Accident Fund comments by Dan Neser SC, Pretoria Bar
Balienuus • Bar news
- Page 10: Vrystaat bygedra deur Ilse Potgieter, Bloemfontein
- Page 10: Johannesburg contributed by Mark Stranex, Johannesburg
- Page 11: Noord–Kaap bygedra deur BJ Erasmus, Kimberley
- Page 11: Natal contributed by Shelley Walker, Durban
- Page 12: Bisho contributed by TV Norman, Bisho
- Page 12: Pretoria bygedra deur Bill Prinsloo SC, Pretoria
- Page 14: Eastern Cape: Port Elizabeth and Grahamstown
- Page 14: Cape: reprinted from Cape Bar Brief
- Page 18: Lang David maak (weer) klaar by die Balie deur Theoniel Potgieter, Kaapse Balie
The judiciary
- Page 15: New judges: Cape Provincial Division • Northern Cape Provincial Division • Natal Provincial
Division • Transvaal Provincial Division - Page 17: Uittrede van regter-president Eloff SC
Education and training
- Page 22: New practitioners’ advocacy training by Sherise Weiner SC and Craig Watt–Pringle,
Johannesburg Bar - Page 23: National Bar Examination Board by Archie Findlay SC
- Page 24: Pupillage by R P Hoffman SC, Cape Bar
Forum
- Page 27: Judicial Ombudsman by S Baqwa SC, Public Protector, Pretoria
- Page 29: Rules Board by H J Erasmus
- Page 33: Vroue–advokaat – amper ‘n halfeeu gelede deur Leo van den Heever
Practice • Praktyksbrokkies
Obiter …
- Page 36: Obiter …
We remember them …
- Page 37: The late Justice John Didcott SC, tribute by Justice A Chaskalson, President of the
Constitutional Court - Page 37: The late Harry Snitcher QC, tribute by Jeremy Gauntlett SC, chairman of the Cape Bar
From the publishers
- Page 38: Customs and Excise Service by H C Cronje reviewed by Nico Oelofse, Pretoriase Balie
- Page 38: Custody and Visitation Disputes by by H Bosman-Swanepoel, A Fick and N Strydom
reviewed by Germa Wright, Free State Bar - Page 39: The Law of Contract in South Africa, Third edition by R H Christie reviewed by John
Middleton, Pretoria Bar - Page 39: Labour Law Diary reviewed by Johan Nel, Pretoria Bar
- Page 39: Juta’s New Land Law by by G Budlender, J Latsky and T Roux reviewed by Vasantrai Soni,
Durban Bar