Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves
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Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves

Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves

Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order

About this book

With a Foreword by the South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Kader Asmal. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established in South Africa after the collapse of apartheid, was the bold creation of a people committed to the task of rebuilding of a nation and establishing a society founded upon justice, equality and respect for the rule of law. As part of its historic, cathartic, mission, the TRC held a special hearing, calling to account the lawyers - judges, academics and members of the bar -who had been crucial participants in the apartheid legal order. This book is an account of those hearings, and an attempt to evaluate, in the light of theories of adjudication, the historical role of the judiciary and bar in the apartheid years. This book offers us the spectacle of an entire legal system on trial. The echoes from this process are captured here in a way which will appeal to all readers, lawyers and non-lawyers alike, interested in the relationship between law and justice, as it is exposed during a period of transition to democracy.

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Information

Year
1998
Print ISBN
9781841134031
eBook ISBN
9781847313270
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Half Title Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Title verso
  4. Foreword
  5. Contents
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1. Truth, Memory and the Rule of Law
  8. Chapter 2. Judicial Dilemmas: Tales of (Dis)empowerment
  9. Chapter 3. Memory's Struggle
  10. Chapter 4. The Politics of the Rule of Law
  11. Schedule of the Hearing
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index