Legal Expert Kickstarts ‘SA Courts are Incompetent’ Debate

Legal Experts Argue about SA Courts Incompetence

2011-02-14 22:58
Phillip de Bruin, Beeld

Two of the country's top experts on constitutional law are in disagreement the state of the justice system and especially the constitutional court.

Adv. Jeremy Gauntlett SC, who has been a judge in Cape Town, has kickstarted the debate with a speech (The Silence of the Lawyers) at a conference of the Association of Law Teachers in Stellenbosch.

Jeremy J Gauntlett SC

Jeremy was called to the Bar in 1974 (commencing practice in 1977) and took silk in 1989. He became a member of Group 621 in 1999.

Jeremy is also a member of Brick Court Chambers in London, a barrister of England and Wales, an advocate of the High Courts of Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe, and a Judge of Appeal of Lesotho.

He has contributed three titles to the Law of South Africa and has written a number of journal articles.

Jeremy was President of the Cape Bar in the years 1997 to 1999, and Chairman of the General Council of the Bar in the years 1999 to 2002. He is a member of the South African Law Commission and of the Council of the University of Cape Town.

Gauntlett did not walk on egg shells and said the time has come to put an end to the approach that aparthy is the appropriate response to analysis of court decisions and how courts operate.

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