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JUDGE Dennis Davis will address the Cape Town Press Club on “The Judiciary under the spotlight : the turn from politics in the streets to politics in the court. What does this mean for the judicial institution?”
Judge Davis has been a judge of High Court, Cape Town since 1998 and Judge President of the Competition Appeal Court since 2000. Previously he was professor of Law at the University of Cape Town (where he still teaches) and Witwatersrand where he was the Director of Applied Legal Studies(CALS) from 1990 to 1997. While at CALS he was involved as legal advisor to the multi-party conference that drafted the South African constitution. He has also held visiting professorial posts at Toronto, Melbourne , Harvard , NYU , Florida Brown , Georgetown.
Author of 10 books – his most recent in 2008 was Precedent and Possibility - on the use and abuse of law in South Africa (with Michelle Leroux) as well as the writer of some 150 academic articles on legal theory , constitutional law, taxation, labour law , competition law, administrative law and South African history, he is currently penning a new work on constitutional adjudication in political turbulence.
Married to Claudette, he has two children, who like their father believe he should rather be managing Man United than grappling with legal issues.
He will take questions.
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| Date | Friday, November 25, 2011 |
| Time | 12:30 for 13:00 |
| Venue | The Pavilion, Kelvin Grove Club (new venue near bowling green) |
| Cost | R140 Members R180 Guests |
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