Judging the Judges, Judging Ourselves - Truth, Reconciliation and the Apartheid Legal Order

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.>

Product details

• Authors: David Dyzenhaus, Dyzenhaus David
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.1998
• EAN: 9781901362947
• ISBN: 978-1-901362-94-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Labour law, social law; Ethnic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Courts, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Trial Practice, Republic of South Africa, Social discrimination & inequality, Social Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Courts & procedure, Legal systems: courts and procedures, Citizenship and nationality law, Citizenship & nationality law, Social law and Medical law, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies