Bar, bench & bullshifters
Subtitle: Cape tales 1950-1990
By: collected by Gerald Friedman and Jeremy Gauntlett
Contributors: Gauntlett, J. J., compiler
Publisher: SiberInk
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781920025694
Subjects: Administration of Justice; History; Practice of law; Judges; Biography; Lawyers
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Memory, hold the door; title: The Cape bar in the 1950s; title: The judges' corridor; title: The court library; title: The stenographers; title: Ushers; title: Esprit de corps; title: Bar dinners; title: Pranks; title: Bar deaths; title: Some giants at the bar. Bobby Bloch ; Harry Snitcher ; Gerald Gordon ; Graeme Duncan ; Andries Brink Beyers ; Theo van Wyk ; Dawid de Villiers ; Philip Schock; title: Judicial appointments; title: Judges president and some others. Percy Jones ; George Sutton ; RPB Davis ; Hendrik van Zyl ; Jackie de Villiers ; Andries Beyers ; Theo van Wyk ; Joseph Herbstein ; Helm van Zijl ; Henry Ernest Peter (Jack) Watermeyer ; George Munnik.