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Seminar with Justice Albie Sachs –‘The Sacred and the Secular: The Same-Sex Marriages Case’ – audio now available

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On 20 September 2010, the HRLRC hosted a seminar with Justice Albie Sachs, former Judge of the South African Constitutional Court, entitled ‘The Sacred and the Secular: The Same-Sex Marriages Case’.

The follow audio recordings are available from the seminar:

  • Introduction of Albie Sachs, by Rachel Ball  (4 mins 19 secs)
  • Albie Sachs address – Part 1 (28 mins 50 secs) – Part 2 (17 mins 45 secs)
  • Questions and answers (18 mins 46 secs)
  • Book Launch of Albie Sachs’ new book “The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law”, by Brian Walters (5 mins 4 secs)

About Albie Sachs:

Albie Sachs was appointed by Nelson Mandela as an inaugural judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, from which he retired in 2009.  He was a member of the National Executive of the ANC and played a crucial role in South Africa’s transition to democracy, including through the drafting of the South African Bill of Rights.  In 1988, while in exile in Mozambique, he was badly injured by a car bomb placed by South African security agents, losing an arm and the sight of an eye.

As a judge of the Constitutional Court, Justice Sachs was responsible for many landmark human rights judgments, including in relation to equality, non-discrimination and social and economic rights.

In 1991, Albie Sachs won the Alan Paton Award for his book Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter.  He is also the author of Justice in South Africa (1974), The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1966), Sexism and the Law (1979) and The Free Diary of Albie Sachs (2004).  His most recent book, The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law, will be launched in Melbourne at this seminar.

Albie Sachs is visiting Australia to deliver the University of New South Wales Law Faculty Annual Hal Wootten Lecture.


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