The New York Times quotes Chaskalson as saying, “For the first time, the Constitution trumps parliament.” ... Lawyers can be improbable heroes, but Arthur Chaskalson was one.

Arthur Chaskalson, who has died aged 81, was South Africa’s most senior judge for a decade after apartheid’s demise, serving as the first guarantor of the non-racial constitution that ...

Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and judges Johan Kriegler and Albie Sachs at the Constitutional Court. Picture: Gallo images / Robbie Schneider A champion of social change, human rights and ...

Even during the darkest days of apartheid, Arthur Chaskalson had a revolutionary view of the law: that it was about justice. As a young attorney in Johannesburg in the 1950s, he saw firsthand that ...

Arthur Chaskalson: A Life Dedicated to Justice for All is a biography of a remarkable life lived in service both to law and to the struggle for social change and justice. The social change it ...

Chaskalson, born into a middle-class Johannesburg Jewish family, is most renowned for his role as a young lawyer in the defence of Mandela against the apartheid state at the 1963 Rivonia Trial.

Chaskalson, who became the first president of South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitutional Court and the country’s chief justice, died Dec. 1 in Johannesburg at the age of 81. The cause of his ...

Arthur Chaskalson was widely recognised as one of the key architects of South Africa's post-apartheid constitution, and also as its most renowned jurist. He burst into prominence as a junior ...

Arthur Chaskalson, 81, a civil rights lawyer who once helped defend Nelson Mandela and later became South Africa’s chief justice, died Dec. 1 in Johannesburg. The state-owned South African ...

Former chief justice Arthur Chaskalson defended his successor, Pius Langa, in a letter on Tuesday, saying Langa has shown ”commendable leadership”. By Staff Reporter No image available ...