• Arthur Chaskalson SCOB, (24 November 1931 – 1 December 2012) was President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1994 to 2001 and Chief Justice...
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  • Amendment was passed in November 2001. On 1 June 2005, he succeeded Arthur Chaskalson as Chief Justice, a position which he held until his mandatory retirement...
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    Tribunal. Born in the former Transkei, Ngcukaitobi clerked for Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. He spent several years...
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  • who was the instructing attorney, Bram Fischer, Vernon Berrangé, Arthur Chaskalson and George Bizos. Hilda Bernstein (wife of Rusty Bernstein) approached...
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    they reach the age of 65, they may voluntarily retire. Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson (born 1931, appointed by Nelson Mandela as President of the Constitutional...
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    sharply on the issue, with the bench split five to four. Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Justice Laurie Ackermann, and Justice Johann Kriegler wrote for the...
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  • served as the court's inaugural Deputy President, deputising President Arthur Chaskalson. He was also the chairperson of the South African Law Reform Commission...
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  • inaugural World Justice Project Rule of Law Award was awarded to: Justice Arthur Chaskalson, former Chief Justice of South Africa Aruna Roy, whose efforts through...
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    arrival of a group of human rights lawyers – Joel Joffe, Harry Schwarz, Arthur Chaskalson and Harold Hanson. Bizos was council for the accused in at least 26...
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  • Presidency of the Republic of South Africa. Retrieved 30 November 2021. "Arthur Chaskalson". The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa. Retrieved 30 November...
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  • 1900–1902 The 1st Earl of Athlone (1874–1957); Governor-General 1924–30; Arthur Chaskalson (1931–2012); Chief Justice of South Africa, 2001–2005 Jeremy Cronin...
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    and the Bill of Rights. Goldstone's judgment was joined by Justices Arthur Chaskalson, Ismail Mahomed, Laurie Ackermann, Pius Langa, Tholie Madala, and...
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  • activism through the National Union of South African Students. With Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge, he co-founded the Legal Resources Centre in...
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  • Arthur Chaskalson served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1995 until his retirement in 2005. South Africa: Constitutional...
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    heard on 27 August 1998 before President of the Constitutional Court Arthur Chaskalson, Deputy President Pius Langa, and Justices Ackermann, Goldstone, Kriegler...
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    Dikgang Moseneke wrote the leading judgment, in which Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and Justice Tholie Madala concurred. Three other judgments were filed...
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  • completed in his absence. Advocates Harold Hanson, Sydney Kentridge, and Arthur Chaskalson defended him at the hearing. Vernon Berrange led the defence case...
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    Constitutional Court's five-member majority, which also included Justices Arthur Chaskalson, Pius Langa, Laurie Ackermann, and Johann Kriegler. The majority dismissed...
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    deliberately provoking revolt in the Vaal Triangle. Represented by Arthur Chaskalson and George Bizos, the defendants also denied alternative charges of...
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    Akhumzi Jezile – South African actor, television presenter and producer Arthur Chaskalson – Judge, lawyer to Nelson Mandela Johnny Clegg – British-born South...
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  • in 1979 by a group of prominent South African lawyers, including Arthur Chaskalson, Felicia Kentridge, and Geoff Budlender, under the guidance of American...
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    leading human rights lawyer and director of the Legal Resources Centre Arthur Chaskalson to the position. In 2001, after Mohammed's death and, consequently...
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    eight-member majority of the court, which also included Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Deputy Chief Justice Pius Langa, and Justices Tholie Madala, Kate...
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  • death penalty. The principal judgment, by President of the Court Arthur Chaskalson, found the death penalty to be unconstitutional not because it violated...
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    the Constitutional Court. His judgment was joined by Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Deputy Chief Justice Pius Langa, and Justices Richard Goldstone,...
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  • (d. 2019) 1931 – Tommy Allsup, American guitarist (d. 2017) 1931 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa...
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    his co-accused met with their lawyers - Bram Fischer, Joel Joffe, Arthur Chaskalson and George Bizos - who told them that their situation was dire and...
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    criminal sentences. Ngcobo's opinion was joined by Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson, Justices Johann Kriegler and Tholie Madala, and Acting Justices Ben...
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  • anti-apartheid activist. Law school classmate of Nelson Mandela. Arthur Chaskalson, chief justice Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (South African-born) Andrew...
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  • 1929) 2012 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987) 2012 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa...
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