Johan Froneman

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Johan Froneman (born February 10, 1953 in East London ) is a South African lawyer and a judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa since 2009 .

Life

Growing up on a farm in Cathcart , Froneman attended Gray College in Bloemfontein until 1970 , where he was successful as a cricketer . After a year of service in the South African Navy , he began studying law at the University of Stellenbosch , which he graduated in 1974. Then he moved to the University of South Africa , where he worked as a research assistant and in 1977 he obtained a Bachelor of Laws degree . After the practical training at the Bar Association in Pretoria Froneman was admitted as a lawyer in the January 1978 Supreme Court of South Africa and settled in litigation ( Advocate ) in Grahamstown down. In 1990 he was appointed Senior Council . During his time as a lawyer, Froneman was also actively involved in the bar association. On January 1, 1994, he was named a judge in the Eastern Cape Division . In 1996 he moved to the Labor Court of South Africa as Vice Chairman . He held this position until 2000. During this time he attended Harvard University in 1999 as part of an advanced training course . After a year as an acting judge at the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa , he received a call from his alma mater as associate professor of public law . In 2000 he was doing research at Oxford University . In 2009 he was finally appointed to a position as a judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa.

Others

Froneman is married to the lawyer Sonette Froneman and has two daughters. The family lives in Grahamstown.

Publications (selection)

  • The Impossibility of Constitutional Democracy . In: Henk Botha, André Van der Walt, Johan Van der Walt (Eds.): Rights and democracy in a transformative constitution Rights and Democracy in a Transformative Constitution . African Sun Media, Stellenbosch 2003, ISBN 1-919980-02-4 , pp. 93-103.
  • Enforcing socio-economic rights under a transformative constitution: the role of the courts: panel discussion . In: Economic and social rights in South Africa . Vol. 8, No. 1, 2007, ISSN  1684-260X , pp. 20-25.
  • A lawyer's response to the current travails of South African constitutionalism . Pretoria University Law Press, Pretoria 2009, OCLC 699660128

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.V. : Eastern Cape Division: New Judge . In: General Council of the Bar of South Africa (ed.): Consaltus . Vol. 7, No. 1 , April 1994, pp. 61 ( sabar.co.za [PDF; accessed June 29, 2013]).
personal data
SURNAME Froneman, Johan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African lawyer, judge at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of South Africa
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH East London