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Ghoti wanted proof
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Ghoti wanted proof
marine1
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Difference is in those days, things actually worked.
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Fudzy
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You're welcome to put your head in the sand but equality policies are put in place to stop the the nepotism, cronyism that happened in the past, this is what the judge was implying I think.
That's not to say nepotism/cronyism isn't common place today but the tables are still in our favour in the top positions and it is going to take a while for it to balance out.
Vrotappel
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dlk001
Executive Member
I also admit a racist system helped me out. Ironically in my case, it was White men who applied the transformation agenda, opposed the state of affairs at the time. There were no Transformation targets imposed on institutions but there was a Transformation Principle.
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Well lucky you then. I had to go through the whole "best man for the job" thing.
dlk001
Executive Member
I was fortunate. "Best man" principle did not apply.
Just tell me you're not a doctor or pilot please.
dlk001
Executive Member
What makes those professions special to you?
Mila
Honorary Master
he flies and sees a doctor to often.
Dlk001 is in the mining industry and know a bunch more than most people here.
dlk001
Executive Member
Mila
Honorary Master
dlk001
Executive Member
True...To answer your question, I'm not a Pilot or Doctor. I was just curious why you used those examples.
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Grant
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To my knowledge judges are indeed lawyers.
Lawyers being the generic term covering those within the legal profession ie. Attorneys, advocates, senior counsel, prosecutors, magistrates and judges.
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not necessarily:
Judges need to be appropriately qualified which is taken to be a legal qualification - essentially the LLB or an equivalent thereto.
Lawyer as a term is used to refer to a practitioner or person employed in the practicing before courts and tribunals and who is appropriately qualified.
Legal academics who are non-practitioners aren't lawyers and a professor holding a chair in law tends also not to be thought of as a lawyer even if the professor does engage in mediation or arbitration proceedings. As a rule I would regard calling somebody with an LLD a lawyer an insult - they are a doctor, a real one.
A person who just does mediation might end up being referred to as a lawyer but I don't think the norm is to think of CCMA commissioners as lawyers if they don't (and haven't) practiced "privately".
Several (but not many) judges have been appointed from among legal academics and they are not therefore lawyers on assuming the bench. Also there is a tendency to think of the bench as outside of legal practice and so lawyers and judges thought of differently.
Of course there are other oddities - for example I have no idea what one would term a person with credentials in legal academia (peer-review publication record) without a legal qualification to practice.
Judges need to be appropriately qualified which is taken to be a legal qualification - essentially the LLB or an equivalent thereto.
Lawyer as a term is used to refer to a practitioner or person employed in the practicing before courts and tribunals and who is appropriately qualified.
Legal academics who are non-practitioners aren't lawyers and a professor holding a chair in law tends also not to be thought of as a lawyer even if the professor does engage in mediation or arbitration proceedings. As a rule I would regard calling somebody with an LLD a lawyer an insult - they are a doctor, a real one.
A person who just does mediation might end up being referred to as a lawyer but I don't think the norm is to think of CCMA commissioners as lawyers if they don't (and haven't) practiced "privately".
Several (but not many) judges have been appointed from among legal academics and they are not therefore lawyers on assuming the bench. Also there is a tendency to think of the bench as outside of legal practice and so lawyers and judges thought of differently.
Of course there are other oddities - for example I have no idea what one would term a person with credentials in legal academia (peer-review publication record) without a legal qualification to practice.
Afrikaaners promoted Afrikaaners because they where Afrikaaners, not because they where the best. Look how that turned out. They screwed up the country so bad we ended up with the ANC.
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Fudzy
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LOL!
Mila
Honorary Master
+100 000 000
saksakgp
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