Abstract
The contribution is the review published by former Deputy Chief Justice, Dikhang Moseneke, about his illustrious 15-year term in the Constitutional Court as both the judge and Deputy Chief Justice. The book uniquely provides a rare window into the dynamics of judicial decision-making at the apex court. Often, legal academics only interact with the judiciary through the judgements. Yet, Moseneke gives the reader much more to the judicial decision-making process than just the judgements. The book further traverses one of the most controversial aspects of the Constitutional Court’s jurisprudence, such as same-sex marriages, succession to chieftainship.
Highlights
Justice Moseneke's work is unique and defies all the established book categorisations – biographies, fiction, textbook or academic research. It looks like an autobiography, as he gives the reader a glimpse of his personal history as he starts with the story of how he ended up choosing law, as opposed to being a traffic cop
It looks like an autobiography, as he gives the reader a glimpse of his personal history as he starts with the story of how he ended up choosing law, as opposed to being a traffic cop.1. He does not go far enough with that personal account. He cuts the chase by immediately taking the reader to his trials and tribulations when he started his legal career until it crested with a fifteen-year term at the Constitutional Court
The way these personal accounts features in this work is primarily truncated in a manner markedly different from his previous work, My Own Liberator,2 which may be categorised as his autobiography par excellence
Summary
Justice Moseneke's work is unique and defies all the established book categorisations – biographies, fiction, textbook or academic research At one point, it looks like an autobiography, as he gives the reader a glimpse of his personal history as he starts with the story of how he ended up choosing law, as opposed to being a traffic cop.. The call 'couldn't have come at the right time when most people continue to live on the periphery of the economy when they live the life of squalor, virtually three decades after liberation It is not immediately from the book how the choice of the title was influenced by the famous American courthouse drama called All Rise.. He has traversed deep jurisprudential questions with so much ease and freedom
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