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Advocate December 2007
Chair’s contribution1
GCB News8
- Page7A challenging year: GCB chair’s annual report 2006/7. Jannie Eksteen SC, chair of the General Council of the Bar of South AfricaPDF
- Page11Advocacy Training. Sharise Weiner SC, convenor of the Advocacy Training Committee (ATC)PDF
- Page11Bursary Committee: more money and new method of allocation needed. Gerrit Pretorius SC convenor of the Bursary CommitteePDF
- Page12Legal Provident Fund: noteworthy improvements. Jacques Basson, representative of the GCB on the boardPDF
- Page12Human Rights Committee: Judicial Bills and overcrowded prisons by Brian Spilg SC, convenor of the GCB Human Rights CommitteePDF
- Page13Judicial Service Commission: Delays in the delivery of reserved judgments and complaints against judges considered. Report by Milton Seligson SC, GCB representative on the JSCPDF
- Page14Pupillage: the latest. AJ (Spicko) Dickson SC, KwaZulu-Natal BarPDF
- Page16Press release on the question whether retired judges should take on work with ministerial permissionPDF
Bar news11
- Page18Pretoria Bar contributed by Henk Havenga, Pretoria BarPDF
- Page19KwaZulu-Natal: A tribute to Douglas Shaw QC by David Gordon SC, KwaZulu-Natal Bar, DurbanPDF
- Page22Port Elizabeth contributed by Peter Kroon, Port Elizabeth BarPDF
- Page22Grahamstown contributed by Izak Smuts SC, Grahamstown BarPDF
- Page22Johannesburg: Group 21 hosts event to further transformation initiativePDF
- Page23Johannesburg: Advocacy trainingPDF
- Page23Johannesburg: The Red BagPDF
- Page24Cape: Alien Invasion III: Yellow Cranes in a Big Hole by Anton Kruger, Cape BarPDF
- Page28Cape: Good hope for litigation reform by Frans Rautenbach, Cape BarPDF
- Page31Johannesburg: A cure for Middle Age by Bruce Leech and Paul Belger, Johannesburg BarPDF
- Page32Johannesburg: Trial advocacy skills training. Lessons from the National Institute for Trial -Advocacy. Louis Gumbi, Johannesburg BarPDF
Forum7
- Page33“Judge Hlophe betrayed the nation with his greed” Former Constitutional Court Justice Johann Kriegler wrote in The Sunday Times of 7 October 2007PDF
- Public statement by senior counsel: Cape Bar. Schalk Burger SC, Michael Fitzgerald SC, Jeremy Gauntlett SC, Peter Hodes SC, Rob Petersen SC, Les Rose-Innes SC, Nic Treurnicht SC, Henri Viljoen SC, Renata Williams SCPDF
- Page35Lest we forget… by MS Navsa, Supreme Court of Appeal, BloemfonteinPDF
- Page37The prevalence of acting judges in the High Court – is it consistent with an independent judiciary? by Johan Trengove, Cape BarPDF
- Page40Computer programs’: one of those dark, as yet uncharted precincts of ‘intellectual property’ by Bert Bester, Johannesburg BarPDF
- Page44Control on direct examination in American trial practice: Part 2 Preparation, selection and organisation by Willem H Gravett, New York State BarPDF
- Page50Crime and sentencing in the ‘new’ South Africa: A brief perspective. By Leon Vermaak, forensic criminologist in private practice, Port ElizabethPDF
From the publishers1
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