JSC gives nod to seasoned Free State advocate Ilse van Rhyn - The decision to recommend her appointment is unusual as she had never applied to take silk, a choice that perplexed Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and commissioners
for appointment to the Free State high court, in a rare instance of an advocate who elected not to take silk ascending to the bench.
However, successfully applying had an effect not only on the nature of one’s work, but on the fees involved, with the figures commanded rising steeply. She added that she had dealt with complex matters regardless.In an interview with the JSC for the Free State division in 2019, Van Rhyn had told how she had at one point been forced to leave the bar as a young advocate because she had mainly worked for the Legal Aid Board, who neglected to pay her for more than a year.
Zondo said she was the second candidate to be interviewed on the day who had waited more than two decades to take silk, whereas he knew of lawyers who had done so after 11 or even, in one instance, seven years.Advocate Khameshni Pillay, the new representative ofon the JSC, faulted Van Rhyn for not taking juniors into her practice as a way of transferring skills. She raised a reported case where Van Rhyn was briefed by the bar council to appear pro bono and asked why she did not brief a junior.
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