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He matriculated at Stellenbosch Boys' High School in 1936 and attended the University of Pretoria, where he completed a BA cum laude in 1944 and an LLB cum laude in 1946. [1] Thereafter he practised as an advocate in Pretoria from 1946 to 1966, taking silk in 1960 and serving as chairman of the Pretoria Bar Council in 1966. [1]
Then, between 1958 and 1980, he practised as an advocate at the Pretoria Bar. [3] He gained silk status in 1975 and served stints on the Pretoria Bar Council and the General Council of the Bar. He first acted as a judge in August 1976, and in October 1980 he was permanently appointed to the bench of the Transvaal Provincial Division of the ...
Mothle was born on 24 July 1956 in Lady Selborne, Pretoria in the former Transvaal. [1] He matriculated in 1974 at Pretoria's Mamelodi High School and enrolled in legal study at the University of the North, but he was excluded after the 1976 Soweto uprising. [2] He completed his degree at the University of South Africa, receiving a BProc in 1979.
Pretoria (main seat) 25°44′41″S 28°11′15″E / 25.7446°S 28.1874°E / -25.7446; 28.1874 ( Gauteng Division, Province of Gauteng ( Ekurhuleni , Emfuleni , Johannesburg , Midvaal , Mogale City ), and North West districts of Bloemhof , Brits , Christiana , Klerksdorp , Potchefstroom , Schweizer-Reneke , Ventersdorp ...
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 ...
In 2003, the General Council of the Bar of South Africa presented Kriegler with its Sydney and Felicia Kentridge Award for Service to Law in Southern Africa, [4] and in 2011, he received the International Foundation for Electoral Systems's Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award for outstanding commitment to democracy and human rights. [31]
An advocate at the Pretoria Bar from 1966 to 1986, Harms was awarded senior advocate status in 1981 and appointed as a judge in 1986. [3] He served as a Judge of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal from 1993 to his appointment as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2008, a position he held until his retirement in 2011. [2]
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.