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At the Grahamstown festival? Don’t miss this fringe special: The epicene butcher and other stories for consenting adults. It’s performed by Jemma Kahn who stayed over at Trading Places on her way to the festival. She wanted a final run through and we volunteered to be...

… with other judges A NUMBER of judicial officers were klapped by the Supreme Court of Appeal in decisions delivered late last term: over just five days at least eight sharp criticisms were handed down to other judges, magistrates – and a retired judge. Of course an...

Early morning in the veld is the best time of all!

… for ignoring court order PERHAPS it’s because I live in the quiet platteland myself that I was so interested to read last week’s decision in the case of Bickel v Brown, a dispute between the owners of two neighbouring properties in Gonubie, outside East London. The...

I fridge motor churns – beyond the kitchen door silent veld waits II Gate flung open. Temptation. Irresistible. I open my arms and run through. III Artemis! Artemisia! My hunting dogs still seek you by your moon. IV Like the garden my writing grows. I feed the soil...

GOOD bedtime reading for insomniacs but the rest of us would first have to grab a strong cup of coffee. I’m talking about the Constitutional Court’s judgment in the Maccsand case that will be remembered for two reasons: for the important question it answered, and for...

MOST people know that a lawyer who is guilty of misconduct may be struck from the roll and prevented from ever acting as an advocate or attorney again. But supposing the person involved never was a proper member of the profession in the first place – what happens...

– That’s the question raised by the Constitutional Court’s judgment in the Hlophe matter IN the upheaval over government’s peculiar plans for the judiciary and the justice system, not to mention its new obsession for creating a compulsory national culture of keeping...

– to judgment on senior counsel status THE General Council of the Bar and the Johannesburg society of advocates are likely to challenge the high court ruling declaring that the South Africa President has no power to confer senior counsel status on members of the bar....

– for “don’t ask; don’t tell” – judge slams ‘arrogant’ disregard for public right to information Dlusha v King Sabatha Dalindye IT’S not only the central government that finds itself under pressure from the courts. Provincial and local governments are also being told...