Justice Owen Lloyd Rogers

22 October 1958, Cape Town
Wife: Susan Rogers
No children

Articled clerk; Sonnenberg Hoffmann & Galombik, Cape Town: 1986-1987
Pupillage at the Cape Bar: Jan-July 1988
Advocate at the Cape Bar:1988-2012
Awarded status of senior counsel: 1999
Treasurer, honorary secretary and member of the Cape Bar Council: 1994-1998; 2000-2003
Chairperson of the Cape Bar Council: 2004-2005
Chairperson of tribunals established in terms of s 15K of the Pension Funds Act
Acting Judge; Western Cape High Court: various periods in 2001, 2003, 2009 and 2011
Acting Judge; Labour Court: fourth term 2002
Judge; Western Cape High Court: 2013 - 2022
Acting Judge of Appeal; Competition Appeal Court: 2015-2016
Judge of Appeal; Competition Appeal Court: 2017 - 2022
Acting Judge of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal for eight terms over the period August 2017-June 2021

Honorary Judicial Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)
Advisory member of the South African Judicial Journal
Advocacy Trainer for the General Council of the BAr 2015 to date

The Action of the Disappointed Beneficiary (1986) 103 SALJ 683.
When All Else has Failed: Illegal Strikes, Ultimatums and Mass Dismissals 1991 (12) ILJ 1171 (co-authored with Jeremy Gauntlett)
Silk: Why it should go Advocate (December 2006) 26
High Fees and Dubious Practices Advocate (April 2012) 40
The Ethics of the Hopeless Case Advocate (December 2017) 46.
To Give and to Gain: Judicial involvement in advocacy training SAJEJ Vol 1(1) 2018.
Argument and Opinion, Advocate and Expert Advocate (April 2019) 56
I Beg to Differ’: Are our courts too agreeable? (2022) 139 SALJ 300
Lawyers in Turmoil: The Johannesburg Conspiracy of 1895 (Stormberg, 2020)