The judiciary in South Africa
By: contributing editors, Cora Hoexter, Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Morné Olivier, Associate Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Publisher: Juta
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Claremont, Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781485106258; 9781485101710
Subjects: Courts; Administration of Justice; Judges; Judicial power; Judicial independence
Description: Offers a detailed account of all the most important aspects of the judiciary in South Africa, both now and in the past. Provides a general survey of the judiciary as an institution.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The structure of the courts  -- Cora Hoexter; title: The judiciary under apartheid  -- Christopher Forsyth; title: Transformation and the judiciary  -- Mtendeweka Mhango; title: Governance and administration of the judicial system  -- Hassen Ebrahim; title: The selection and appointment of judges  -- Morné Olivier; title: The Judicial Service Commission  -- Morné Olivier and Cora Hoexter; title: Judicial accountability  -- Hugh Corder; title: Judicial diversity  -- Catherine Albertyn; title: Non-judicial functions and activities  -- Cora Hoexter; title: The magistracy  -- Morné Olivier; title: The Constitutional Court Hugh Corder and Jason Brickhill --; title: The Constitutional Court : a judge's perspective -- Kate O'Regan.