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Free Country: Selected Lectures and Talks


ISBN13: 9781849464673
Published: November 2012
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
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For decades Sydney Kentridge QC has been admired as a brilliant advocate, an outstanding lawyer and, during the apartheid years in South Africa, a courageous defender of the individual against an oppressive state.

His advocacy at the inquest of Steve Biko came to the attention of a wider audience when he was portrayed on stage and screen by Albert Finney. He has since pursued a second, equally celebrated career as a barrister in England. In 1999 he was knighted 'for services to international law and justice'.M

This selection from his lectures and talks includes memorable and often moving accounts of Sydney's experiences as an advocate practising in South Africa under a legal system which not merely permitted racial discrimination but required it and in which, for political cases, many of the protections essential to a fair trial had been abolished.

Wider topics addressed include the ethics of advocacy, freedom of speech, the rule of law and the selection of judges. Two themes that run through this book are an acute sense of the fragility of the rights and values that define a free country and, at the same time, an intense appreciation of just how much such rights and freedoms, which we may sometimes take for granted, really matter.

Subjects:
South Africa, Other Jurisdictions , General Interest, Biography
Contents:
1. The Pathology of a Legal System: Criminal Justice in South Africa
2. The South African Bar: A Moral Dilemma?
3. Civil Rights in Southern Africa: The Prospect for the Future
4. Law and Lawyers in a Changing Society
5. The Ethics of Advocacy
6. Freedom of Speech: Is it the Primary Right?
7. A Judge's Duty in a Revolution Madzimbamuto v Lardner-Burke
8. The Highest Court: Selecting the Judges
9. Taking Liberties
10. The Rule of Law: Ideals and Realities
11. Evil under the Sun: The Death of Steve Biko
12. A Barrister in the Apartheid Years