The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

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Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. The case list of Sir Sydney Kentridge chronicles some of the most defining moments of the last 40 years. The next four years of his life were spent in uniform, first in Africa and then Italy. Kentridge was part of the invasion force that landed in Sicily in July 1943 and he still remembers being strafed by Stuka bombers — as well as the joy of VE Day, spent outside Mantua. He studied for a second degree at Exeter College, Oxford immediately after the war (once visiting Clement Attlee at 10 Downing Street with his father) and returned to South Africa to start a career as an advocate.

List of Honorary Fellows". Exeter College, Oxford. 2015. Archived from the original on 18 June 2014 . Retrieved 3 January 2016. The cookie is set by Krux Digital under the domain krxd.net. The cookie stores a unique ID to identify a returning user for the purpose of targeted advertising. By March 1961, Kentridge was well into his closing submissions on the legal meaning of treason when he was stopped by the court. The judges had heard enough and were going to acquit all the accused. This they did when they reconvened the following week: Thomas Grant KC has performed a real service by enabling us to get a vivid sense of some of Kentridge's most important cases . . . This is a powerful, but easy, read

Let’s take another idea that you’ve mentioned, the idea that those who hold economic power in society are the effective rulers of it. That didn’t originate with Marx, did it?’ The Biko Inquest (1984)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 25 July 2012 . Retrieved 4 March 2015. Pay the debt forward: Public Protector asks her peers". Public Protector South Africa. 21 July 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 13 August 2015.

STATEMENT FROM THE LRC ON LEARNING OF THE DEATH OF LADY FELICIA KENTRIDGE". Legal Resources Centre. 8 June 2015. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015 . Retrieved 17 July 2015.One of the few secrets of advocacy that can be distilled into a principle is that, while there are many ways of being a bad advocate, the only way in which you will ever be a good one is to be yourself. Kent­ridge was seemingly blessed with the ideal personality. Once again the Bar has asked Sir Sydney to ride to its rescue. He is now leading a committee of barristers charged with defending the Bar's alleged restrictive practices. He will have to counter arguments made by the Office of Fair Trading whose report this year questioned the need for the rank of QC and the restriction that forces the public to first instruct a solicitor before they can see a barrister.

Feinberg, Tali (10 November 2022). "Kentridge reflects on a lifetime of fascination with the law". Jewish Report . Retrieved 27 November 2022. Kentridge refused to accept an appointment to the bench under the Apartheid government. He served as a judge of the Appeal Court in Botswana. In his 50s, Kentridge went to London where he launched a successful legal career, albeit one much more associated with the establishment than that of his time in South Africa. In 1984, he was appointed Queen’s Counsel and served as an Appeal Judge in Jersey and Guernsey. He was elected as Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn in 1986. In England, Kentridge has represented the English Bar in Court and has acted for the British Government (in the litigation on the Maastricht Treaty) and against it (in litigation citing the Home Secretary for contempt of Court). He practised at the Johannesburg Bar for some twenty years before gradually and ultimately moving to practise full time in all manner of cases at the London Bar. In London, Kentridge argued many of the most significant cases from the House of Lords to the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights. Real events inform his work: Ubu Tells the Truth (1997) combines testimonies from South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996-2003) with Alfred Jarry’s 1896 play Ubu Roi (Ubu the King) and Jane Taylor’s 1997 drama Ubu and the Truth Commission, which was directed on stage by Kentridge. In his reimagining, the protagonist Ubu becomes an agent of the secret police during Apartheid. In 1949, after working briefly as a judge's clerk, Kentridge was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa. He was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1965. He became a leading defence lawyer in political trials in South Africa, with some of his major cases including the Treason Trial (1956–61), in which he defended Nelson Mandela, and the Prisons Trial (1968–69). A staunch opponent of apartheid, Kentridge represented three Nobel Peace Prize winners during his career – Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Albert Luthuli. [4]Thus, witnesses “splutter” or “whimper” under Kentridge’s ­“devastating” cross-examination and “patrician nonchalance”; ­Mandela’s bearing in the witness box is “princely”; prosecution ­counsel are “preposterous”, ­“sheepish” or exhibit “a lather of confected rage”. Subtle this isn’t; and when a modest joke of Kent­ridge’s is described as “an immortal retort”, the narrative tips into hagiography – justified in life maybe, but less welcome in a book. It is also an error of judgment for Grant to demote the murderous speeches and (probably) activities of the “sanctified” Winnie Mandela’s later life to the status of “controversies”. In November [2022], [Sydney] Kentridge will mark his 100th birthday, and Grant's in-depth research sets the scene for a celebration of a remarkable legal tactician European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): Öcalan v. Turkey". International Legal Materials. 42 (2): 259. 2003. ISSN 0020-7829. JSTOR 20694349– via JSTOR. In 1986, the Bar sued the Lord Chancellor (then Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone) over legal-aid fees that had not been upgraded for years. Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us all' David Lammy