Former Acting Justice Savage

Personal Details
  • 10 January 1968, Johannesburg
Education
  • Matric: Westerford High School, Cape Town
  • B.A: University of Cape Town (1988)
  • LLB: University of Cape Town (1991)
  • LLM: University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA (summa cum laude) (1997)
Professional history
  • Candidate Attorney and Attorney: Chennells Albertyn, Stellenbosch: 1992-1995.
  • Deputy Director Mediation: Independent Electoral Commission, Western Cape - elections 1994.
  • Legal Researcher: African National Congress Constitutional Commission in Parliament 1995 -1996.
  • Attorney: Legal Resources Centre Constitutional Litigation Unit, Johannesburg 1996 – 1997
  • Commissioner: Commission for Conciliation Mediation and Arbitration, Johannesburg 1997 – 2000.
  • Attorney: Haffegee Roskam Savage Attorneys 2000 - 2008.
  • Director: Bowman Gilfillan 2008 - 2012.
  • Arbitrator and mediator on dispute resolution panels including IMSSA, AMSSA, Tokiso, PSCBC, PHWSBC, ELRC, SSSBC, CCMA variously from 1994 - 2012
  • Acting Judge: Labour Court 4th term 2011
  • Acting Judge: Western Cape High Court 4th term 2012 – end 4th term 2014
  • Judge: Western Cape High Court 2015 to date
  • Acting Judge: Labour Appeal Court 2015 to date.
  • Acting Judge: Competition Appeal Court: February 2022 to date.
  • Acting Judge: Supreme Court of Appeal: 1 April 2022 – 31 May 2022.
Other Activities
  • Board Member: Southern African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII) 2004 to date
  • Trustee: Constitutional Court Trust until 2019
  • Member of South African Society for Labour Law to date.

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THE HISTORY OF THE IDEA

The notion of a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1955 carried the idea forward.