Terrible fires today; remembering terrible punishment for arsonists 300 years ago
Terrible fires have burnt the Overberg this month. This is the part of the Western Cape where I live and while we've been seeing close up what the fires mean, the resulting dense smoke plumes could even be seen in satellite pictures, drifting 300 km north of the...
Zambia’s top court upholds property rights against the state
Zambia’s highest court has delivered a new decision that ends more than four decades during which government occupied prime private land, land that was never paid for and that the state appeared to think it could hold and use, indefinitely. It's a judgment of major...
Writing historical fiction after a lifetime writing about the law
Some days I feel like a traitor. After decades of writing about law and legal developments with an almost obsessive determination to find and stick to verifiable facts, I’ve started to write fiction. Historical fiction. The book of short stories I’m working on is...