Related Research Articles
LourensWepener Hugo "Laurie" Ackermann is a South African retired judge who served on the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2004. Appointed to the inaugural court by Nelson Mandela,he is best known for his jurisprudence on dignity. He was formerly an academic,a practising advocate,and a judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa.
Judge Bernard Makgabo Ngoepe SC is a South African Judge serving as Tax Ombudsman of South Africa since 2013. He was the Chancellor of the University of South Africa from 2011 to 2016.
Ismail Mahomed SCOB SC was a South African lawyer and jurist who served as the first black Chief Justice of South Africa from January 1997 until his death in June 2000. He was also the Chief Justice of Namibia from 1992 to 1999 and the inaugural Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1995 to 1996.
Johann Vincent van der Westhuizen is a South African who served on the Constitutional Court of South Africa from February 2004 to January 2016. He was a professor of law at the University of Pretoria from 1980 to 1999,when he joined the bench as a judge of the High Court of South Africa.
Johan Coenraad Froneman is a South African retired judge who was a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from October 2009 to May 2020. He joined the judiciary as a judge of the Eastern Cape Division in 1994 and was elevated to the apex court by President Jacob Zuma. He was also the inaugural Deputy Judge President of the Labour Court of South Africa between 1996 and 1999.
Thokozile Matilda Masipa is a judge in the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa. She was the presiding judge in the 2014 trial of Oscar Pistorius for the killing of Reeva Steenkamp. Her verdict of not guilty of murder was later overturned on appeal.
Frederik Daniël Jacobus "Fritz" Brand SC is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa.
Pieter Jacobus "Pierre" Rabie (1917–1997) was a senior South African judge during the apartheid era and served as Chief Justice from 1982 to 1989.
Nonkosi Zoliswa Mhlantla is a South African judge of the Constitutional Court. Elevated to that court in December 2015,she was formerly a judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal between December 2008 and November 2015. She entered legal practice as an attorney in her hometown,Port Elizabeth,and joined the bench in June 2002,becoming the first woman ever to be appointed to the Eastern Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa.
Pieter Emilius Streicher is a South African lawyer and retired Judge of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal. He graduated with an LL.B. from the University of Pretoria in 1969 and was appointed a judge in the Transvaal Provincial Division in 1989.
Carole Hélène Lewis is a South African retired judge and legal academic. She served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 2003 until her retirement in 2019. Before that,she was a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division. Until her appointment to the bench in November 1999,she was a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand,where she was dean of the School of Law from 1993 to 1998.
Mabel JansenSC is a former judge of the High Court of Gauteng and a lawyer specialising in intellectual property,mercantile and constitutional law. She has acted on behalf of many of the large companies in South Africa and has chaired several commissions of enquiry. She was the first woman to be elected chair of the Pretoria Bar Association. Jansen appeared in court in South Africa's first case concerning patents for genetic engineering.
Francois Petrus 'Toon' van den Heever (1894–1956) was a Hertzog Prize-winning South African poet,a scholar of Roman-Dutch law,and from 1948 to 1956 a judge of the Appellate Division.
Josephus Johannes Francois "Joos" Hefer is a South African judge and former Acting President of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa.
Belinda Jane van Heerden is a retired South African judge who served on the Supreme Court of Appeal between 2004 and 2013. Before that,she was a judge of the Western Cape High Court between 2000 and 2004. She also acted on the Constitutional Court in 2006.
Suretta Snyders was a South African judge who served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from December 2008 until her death in August 2014. Formerly an advocate and Senior Counsel in Johannesburg,she was appointed to the bench in February 1997 as a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the High Court.
Pierre J. J. Olivier was a South African jurist and judge who served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 1995 until his death in 2003. He was an advocate and silk in Bloemfontein until he was appointed to the bench in 1985 as a judge of the Orange Free State Provincial Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. Before entering legal practice,he taught law at the University of Pretoria from 1961 to 1969 and at the University of the Orange Free State from 1969 to 1973;he specialised in private law.
Petrus Millar Nienaber was a South African jurist and judge who served in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 1990 to 2002. He was appointed to the bench as a judge of the Natal Provincial Division in 1982 and was elevated to the Appellate Division in 1990. After his retirement,he was the Ombudsman for Long-Term Insurance from 2003 to 2007. He was formerly a silk in Pretoria and the head of the private law department of the University of South Africa.
John James Trengove was a South African lawyer and judge who served in the Supreme Court of South Africa from 1967 until his retirement in 1986. He joined the bench in the Transvaal Provincial Division in 1967 and was elevated to the Appellate Division in 1978. Before his judicial appointment,he was a practising silk in Pretoria. He was an acting judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 1995.
Hendrik Johannes Otto van Heerden is a South African retired judge who was the first Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa from 1997 to 2000. Formerly an advocate and silk in Bloemfontein,he joined the bench in the Free State Provincial Division in 1978 and was promoted to the Appellate Division in 1982. He was Acting Chief Justice of South Africa in 2000.
References
- 1 2 "Leonora van den Heever Papers". AtoM@UCT.
- 1 2 3 4 "Signing of the Civic Honours Book" (PDF). City of Cape Town. p. 13.
- ↑ Riding, Alan (31 March 2022). "The Paris Opera's Next Season". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- 1 2 Southwood, M. D. (1988). "Fathers and their children on our Bench" (PDF). Advocate. General Council of the Bar of South Africa: 21–27.
- ↑ "Vroue-advokaat – amper 'n halfeeu gelede [Female Advocate – almost half a century ago]" (PDF). Advocate. General Council of the Bar of South Africa: 33–35. 1999.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
