Opened With Expectation and Closed With Profit
Speech delivered by Judge Mabel Jansen at the book launch of Dean & Dyer Introduction to Intellectual Property Law “In our court building, when one wanders in the judges’ corridors, the photographs of all judges who served on the Bench, adorn the walls. One looks at the photographs of judges Galgut, Holmes, Hoexter and many others whom one did not even know existed, and it is with sadness that one realises what a font of knowledge died with each of them. What is also striking is how soon most of the judges died after being appointed: appointed 1971: died 1976; appointed 2002:...
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On Monday this week (2 December 2013) the President of the Republic appointed several new judges to the courts of South Africa including, most notably, Maria (Mabel) Jansen SC. It is with pleasure, and no small measure of pride, that this Chair conveys its congratulations to Judge Jansen on being elevated to the South Gauteng High Court (formerly the Johannesburg High Court) and wishes her well. Following the retirement of Judge Louis Harms from the Supreme Court of Appeal, this Chair (and many others) lamented the lack of IP expertise on the bench in South Africa. For this reason, the...
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