• ISBN13: 9781841134031
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication Date: August 1, 2003
• Pages: 216
• Original Price: GBP 26.99
• Language: English
• Edition: Revised
• Item Weight: 263 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Africa / South / Republic of South Africa, Legal History, and Courts

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.

David Dyzenhaus is Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.