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Corder, Hugh --- "Struggling to adapt: regulating judges in South Africa" [2016] ELECD 1568; in Devlin, Richard; Dodek, Adam (eds), "Regulating Judges" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) 372

Book Title: Regulating Judges

Editor(s): Devlin, Richard; Dodek, Adam

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786430786

Section: Chapter 19

Section Title: Struggling to adapt: regulating judges in South Africa

Author(s): Corder, Hugh

Number of pages: 18

Abstract/Description:

The system for regulating judges in South Africa is in the process of transition, from the accepted common-law practices to a new set of mechanisms founded on and consonant with the values of the 1996 Constitution. This chapter explores the changing landscape of judicial appointments, disciplining and resourcing, and generally ensuring accountability for the exercise of judicial authority, in a constitutional order struggling to adapt to the challenges of ensuring democratic ideals in a manifestly unequal society.