With a Foreword by the South African Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry, Kader Asmal. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established in South Af... » 

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 mission, the TRC held called to account the lawyers - judges, academics and members of the bar -who had been crucial participants in the apartheid legal order. This book records and evaluates those hearings, in the light of theories of adjudication, the historical role of the judiciary and bar in the apartheid years. «