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This List of bar associations in Africa includes bar associations in countries in Africa, many of which were members of the International Bar Association as of 2017. [1] The East Africa Law Society includes many individual members plus six national Bar associations: Law Society of Kenya, Tanganyika Law Society, Uganda Law Society, Zanzibar Law Society, Kigali Bar Association and Burundi Bar ...
A bar council (Irish: Comhairle an Bharra) or bar association, in a common law jurisdiction with a legal profession split between solicitors and barristers or advocates, is a professional body that regulates the profession of barristers.
In August 2010, Ngcukaitobi was admitted to the Johannesburg Bar as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. [10] He spent three years as director of the constitutional litigation unit at the Legal Resources Centre, [ 1 ] during which time he worked with George Bizos as counsel for the families of the victims of the Marikana massacre . [ 11 ]
He joined the Cape Bar in 1968 and was awarded Senior Counsel status at the end of 1981. [1] During 1988, Farlam acted for the first time as a judge in the Orange Free State Provincial Division of the High Court and on 1 October 1993, he was appointed judge of the Cape Provincial Division of the High Court. In 2000 he was appointed as a Judge ...
Navsa was admitted to the Bar in 1981 and subsequently took up employment at the Legal Resources Centre for fourteen years. He was director of the Johannesburg office from 1990 to 1994. [ 1 ] In September 1994 he was granted senior counsel and shortly thereafter was appointed as an Acting Judge of the Supreme Court.
Just as a junior counsel is "called to the [Outer] Bar", a Senior Counsel is, in some jurisdictions, said to be "called to the Inner Bar". Senior Counsel may informally style themselves as silks, like their British counterparts. This is the case in Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong, and South Africa.
A month later Bophuthatswana achieved nominal independence from South Africa and the High Court became the Supreme Court of Bophuthatswana. At first its decisions could be appealed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa, but in 1982 a separate Appellate Division was established within the Bophuthatswana court. [1]
Mthiyane was born in Ndwedwe, in Kwazulu-Natal and received his education at Loram Secondary school, where he matriculated in 1967. He then enrolled at the University of South Africa and obtained his BIuris degree in 1972 after which he furthered his studies at the University of Natal obtaining an LL.B. in 1984 and an LL.M. in 1994.