Law's upper echelons still white men
- 17 May 2013 00:00 - Niren Tolsi
- Women and black men are seriously outnumbered by pale males at South Africa's corporate law firms.
Women in ConCourt row won’t go away
- 22 Feb 2013 00:00 - Niren Tolsi
- With criticism about an all-male candidates list ringing in its ears, the Judicial Service Commission will interview candidates in JohanÂnesburg.
Judiciary: Who guards the guardians of the law?
- 15 Feb 2013 00:00 - Jeremy Gauntlett
- "As Antoine de Saint-Exupéry said, it is harder to judge oneself – and one may add, the fruits of one's labours – than to judge others."
Judiciary: Appointment queried on gender grounds
- 17 Aug 2012 00:00 - Glynnis Underhill
- President Jacob Zuma's choice of Raymond Zondo for top court judge has been undermined by the notion that it was a done deal.
Threats to judiciary will be confronted Justice Mogoeng tells editors
- 28 Jul 2012 17:00 - Sapa
- 'I will not hesitate to confront anybody who actually does something that poses a threat to the independence of the judiciary,' says Mogoeng.
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Ngcobo: Don't take your freedoms for granted
- 08 Mar 2012 18:20 - Faranaaz Parker
- Former chief justice Sandile Ngcobo says South Africans should not take their rights to freedom of expression and information for granted.
Lawyers join call for judges to show and tell
- 06 Feb 2012 13:52 - Staff Reporter
- Judges should disclose their financial and business interests, a group of lawyers says. But that shouldn't necessarily apply to their relatives.
McBride was convicted -- period!
- 02 Aug 2010 18:31 - Eusebius McKaiser
- If someone was convicted of murder but later granted amnesty for their action, does that mean we should no longer call him or her a murderer?
Battles of Bench and Bar
- 23 Sep 2009 18:10 - Sello S Alcock
- How race -- and Judge John Hlophe -- turned the judiciary upside down. Sello S Alcock reports.
Kriegler's challenge echoes Hlophe's
- 06 Sep 2009 06:00 - Sello S Alcock
- The JSC found that Hlophe's actions were improper, but did not constitute the "gross misconduct" legally required for impeachment.
