Table of Contents: Vol 10 • No 2 • November 1997

REDAKSIEKOMITEE
HF Mellet (Redakteur)
MC Botha SC
JY Claassen
WRE Duminy SC
GF Hartford
PB Hodes SC
CB Mann
P Pauw
WRC Prinsloo SC
RL Selvan SC
MD Southwood
WHG van der Linde SC
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Editorial • Redaksioneel
The Chairman’s contribution
Balienuus • Bar news
- Page 86: Eastern Cape contributed by Gordon Hartford, Port Elizabeth
- Page 87: Noord–Kaap bygedra deur BJ Erasmus, Kimberley
- Page 87: Vrystaat bygedra deur Jimmy Claasen, Bloemfontein
- Page 88: Pretoria bygedra deur Bill Prinsloo SC, Pretoria
- Page 89: Johannesburg Bar
- Page 90: Natal contributed by Anne Gordon, Durban
- Page 92: Cape contributed by Willie Duminy, Cape Town
- Page 95: IBA Energy Section: 13th Biennial Conference
New silks
The Judiciary – New judges
Reports
- Page 99: Chairman’s report by Peter Hodes SC
- Page 101: New chairman: Peter Hodes SC
- Page 102: Outgoing chairman: Malcolm Wallis SC
- Page 102: Reflections on the GCB meeting
- Page 104: Human rights by Eberhard Bertelsmann se, Pretoria Bar
- Page 104: Wetgewing en regshervorming
- Page 105: Parliamentary committee by Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Cape Bar
- Page 105: Road Accident Fund contributed by John Mullins, Pretoria Bar
- Page 106: IBA Council Meeting by Malcolm Wallis SC
- Page 107: Visit to Germany by EM du Toit SC, Johannesburg
Practice
- Page 109: Beating the blacklist by Ronnie Selvan SC, Johannesburg Bar
- Page 113: Ethics: amendments to the Professional Rules of Ethics
- Page 113: Supreme Court of Appeal Practice Note
- Page 114: Land Claims Court Practice Direction No2
- Page 115: Come to think of it… by Gordon Hartford, Port Elizabeth Bar
Forum
- Page 117: Practice at the Bar by Chief Justice I Mahomed
- Page 120: Developments in the attorneys’ profession by Ashwin Trikamjee. President of the
Association of Law Societies of South Africa - Page 121: The role of the courts in a changing society by JC Froneman. Judge of the High Court,
Eastern Cape Provincial Division; judge of the Labour Appeal Court, Johannesburg. - Page 124: Perspectives on judicial education by FDJ Brand. Judge of the High Court, Cape Provincial
Division - Page 126: Customary law and the role of customary courts by OS Koyana
- Page 129: Of courts, tribunals and forums (not forgetting commissions): should “differentiation”
matter? By Margaret Beukes. Associate professor, Department of Constitutional and Public
International Law, Unisa, Pretoria - Page 133: The Canadian judicial system by Georgina Pickett. Canadian Department of Justice
- Page 137: The training of magistrates by Cecille van Riet. Chief director Justice College
- Page 140: ‘n Nuwe Visie vir die Departement van Justisie deur Pieter du Rand. Departement van
Justisie
Obiter…by Spectator
Education and training
- Page 146: Cape advocates visit Harvard by Ben Griesel SC, Cape Bar
- Page 146: Advocacy training news by Lyn Ploos van Amstel
- Page 148: Voortgesette praktiese opleiding deur James Goodey, Pretoriase Balie
- Page 150: National Bar Examination Board by Archie Findlay SC, Durban Bar
- Page 151: Update on legal education by Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Cape Bar
Technological update
- Page 153: Barristers don’t surf by Nick Critelli and Tim Kevan
- Page 155: Counsel in South Africa get their toes wet by Leon Bekker, Pretoria Bar
Portfolio
- Page 157: Professional Provident Society
Reviews • Resensies
- Page 158: Exchange Control Encyclopaedia reviewed by Nico Oelofse, Pretoria Bar
- Page 158: Construction Law and Related Issues reviewed by Japie Vorster, Pretoria Bar
- Page 159: Eckard’s Principles of Civil procedure in the Magistrates’ courts reviewed by John
Middleton, Pretoria Bar - Page 159: Extinctive Prescription and Prescription in SA Law reviewed by John Middleton, Pretoria Bar
- Page 160: Kort begrip van boeke/ Books in brief