Judges benched in arms deal and Cele inquiry

28 Oct 2011 16:36 - Katharine Child
Yvonne Mokgoro will no longer be heading the Cele inquiry commission, while Willem van der Merwe has stepped down from the arms deal probe.

D-Day for Concourt candidates

18 Sep 2009 06:00 - Sello S Alcock
The Judicial Service Commission's grilling of candidate judges for the Constitutional Court positions kicks off in Soweto on Sunday.
Fifteen good years

Fifteen good years

18 Feb 2009 06:00 - Sello S Alcock
Sello S Alcock speaks to Judge Yvonne Mokgoro, one of the 'class of 1994' who will soon leave the land's highest court.

Judgement time for Concourt hopefuls

06 Oct 2008 06:00 - Sello S Alcock
Pretoria High Court Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann has withdrawn from the race to succeed Constitutional Court Judge Tholakele Madala.

Motlanthe's hot potatoes

28 Sep 2008 00:00 - Sello S Alcock
One of the first hot potatoes President Kgalema Motlanthe will have to handle is the choice of the 18th judge of the Constitutional Court.
Judges in the dock

Judges in the dock

07 Sep 2008 00:00 - Sello S Alcock
Commentators weigh in on the likely Constitutional Court candidates

Highest court 'not in disarray'

29 Aug 2008 00:00 - Sello S Alcock
Leading legal professionals have dismissed suggestions that the Constitutional Court is in disarray and that it suffers from poor leadership.

Sisters on the bench

27 Jun 2008 06:00 - Staff Reporter, Adriaan Basson,
Director Jane Lipman couldn't have wished for a better time to launch her thought-provoking documentary on the lives of South African women judges.

Hlophe: The big questions

20 Jun 2008 07:10 - Staff Reporter
A united Constitutional Court deals Cape Judge President John Hlophe a devastating blow with a bombshell complaint to the Judicial Service Commission.

Public sector: Judges

07 Aug 2008 17:06 - Staff Reporter
Rosheni Allie, Sisi Khampepe, Carole Lewis, Mandisa Maya, Yasmin Shenaz Meer and more ...

Terry vs Trevor

13 Mar 2008 06:00 - Staff Reporter, Nic Dawes,
Trevor Manuel has been parrying jabs from Terry Crawford-Browne for more than six years, and dishing out a few of his own, but now he wants the Cape High Court to play referee. "If you want to box, box above the belt, and all we say is, we want Queensbury rules," Manuel's advocate, Brian Pincus, told Judge André le Grange.

Last apartheid laws to be removed from statute books

07 Mar 2008 15:12 - Staff Reporter
A project to remove the remnants of apartheid laws from statute books was launched by the South African Law Commission on Friday. It hoped to review about 2 800 statutes that had been placed on the law books since 1910 within the next 18 months, modernising and simplifying the statute book.