Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order
Truth, Reconciliation And The Apartheid Legal Order
- Editore:
BLOOMSBURY
- EAN:
9781901362947
- ISBN:
1901362949
- Pagine:
- 200
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves: Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order
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. Written by a well-known commentator on the South African legal system who became, by chance, the first witness to give testimony at these hearings, this book reveals, often in the words of those who testified, how the judges failed in their duty to uphold the rule of law. For the most part, the lawyers of apartheid dese
