Kameel Premhid
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Advocate. People pay for my legal opinions - none given here. Interested in government & law & British politics. Likes/RTs not an endorsement.
Johannesburg, South Africa
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My grandmother just died in the trauma unit of a private hospital while waiting for medical assistance. This is after searching for hours to find a bed.
#COVID19
is over-burdening our healthcare system. Our people are dying.
Do everything you can to save yourself and others.
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The best birthday gift a junior advocate could ask for. Despite sleep deprivation,
@Ngcukaitobi1
let me argue part of our case today in the Supreme Court of Appeal (for what is my 1st physical appearance here)!
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Imagine being able to utter the words:
"Madam Chief Justice and Members of the Court"
In our lifetime! 💚✊🏽
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Good morning. Here are 5 legal questions for all of you to consider, in the context of our current politics:
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Watching Indian people hyperventilate about the racism expressed towards Archie Mountbatten-Windsor is a curious thing. As if our community isn't both racist and colourist af.
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Today is one of the proudest days of my very short career at the Bar.
Not only did I have my first appearance in the Constitutional Court, I also argued before it.
Surreal.
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Been in practice for 5 full years. Grateful for it all - through the sleepless nights, gut-wrenching anxiety, and endless hard work. The fight - and the passion for law - makes it worth it 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
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Adila and Tembeka wear standard regulation Hogwarts Robes. John decided to go full Dumbledore with scarlet! Love to see it. Wishing all colleagues and friends appearing today the very best as they do their
#countryduty
!
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Still on a social media break. Logged in to say I tested Covid positive today. Despite WFH for 2 weeks and effectively isolating for days even before symptoms started to show. I am fine - symptoms are mild - and I plan to carry on like normal (at home). Please be safe out there!
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I really hope all those people attacking lawyers for representing unpopular clients don't one day find themselves unpopular and in need of legal representation.
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I make no comment on the merits of this case or otherwise. But as for the politics of racial justice in this country, all I can do is share what Mr Malema, MP, had to say ✊🏽
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Today is my first appearance in the Supreme Court of Appeal. Funny to have appeared in the ConCourt already but not the SCA.
A colleague asked why it took so long. My reply? "Everytime we asked them to let us in they kept saying no" 😅
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Robert Sobukwe was killed today by the apartheid regime. Lest we forget the price of our freedom, today of all days.
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POSSIBLE CONTROVERSIAL TWEET ALERT:
Foreigners understanding the legacy of apartheid better than white South Africans who move abroad to leave South Africans behind. I'm here for this.
@yuenok
@stegersaurus
If she grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid Era, then she of all people should be aware that freedom isn't free. A price has to be paid somewhere.
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Happy to say that I am now a dual member of both the Johannesburg Society of Advocates & Pan African Bar Association of South Africa.
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Not to get too excited but I was told I will finally "exist" on the Group One website. My official Chambers pic is being uploaded soon. Cannot wait. Link in bio 😉
#NewProfilePic
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The last 48 hours have been wild. Appeared at a Parliamentary Inquiry yesterday in Cape Town, and was back in Johannesburg today for a Constitutional Court hearing (which I was lucky to argue part of). Can't quite believe that this is what I get to do!
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Sometimes I forget how beautiful my Chamber is. Thankfully I can appreciate it through the eyes of others. As seen and snapped by my pupil
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:
@Jade_Louella
joins me at Group One for pupillage this year. Also ft
@SuhailMohammed_
, special mention for BC and PV who don't have Twitter/X.
PS: please check their behavior on these streets 🤣💀👀
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Pupillage officially starts today!! Good luck to all new entrants taking this brave step to join our profession, and especially those who are starting their journey with us at the Johannesburg Society of Advocates 🙏🏽
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Can someone switch 2020 off and on again already? Put it in rice? Something? This year is a lot.
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I have just concluded a year's worth of therapy.
There is so much stigma attached to mental health. There shouldn't be.
This is my small step (giant leap) in playing a part to undo that.
#MentalHealthMatters
#MentalHealthAwareness
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To protect my mental health during this time, I'm taking a much needed break from Twitter. Information overload aside, the general ugliness which I can usually deal with is just too much right now. I'll get my news elsewhere. Good luck to you all! 💚🙏🏽
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Sunday reflections: Beware the gatekeepers!
For the longest time, I actively thought of myself as a public law lawyer only.
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I am in full Court dress in my bedroom to attend today's hearing via online systems (lighting is better here). Not exactly how I imagined my legal career. Playing dress up in the bedroom.
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4 Senior Black Judges vying for the Chief Justiceship of the Republic. Oh South Africa! Let your detractors claim your Constitution has failed you, and I shall point them to the evidence of hope. The Republic is an ideal and it is alive and well 💚🤗
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Breaking news:
I know yall focusing on SA Parliament, but here's some personal news about a victory I won against the Namibian Parliament on behalf of the Landless People's Movement whose MPs were unlawfully suspended. A first for judicial review of Parliament in Namibia.
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Let me tell you something, they say you are "called to the Bar". In my case, these words are so true. I had fun with 1.5 alternative careers before completing pupillage and starting my practice. Now I know I've found my calling - a vocation in every sense of the word 💚
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I've got a thick a skin as any but this is the second occasion in a few weeks where Senior Counsel has attacked me personally.
Today my arguments were wrong because, apparently, I am "young and fancy".
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How do people who are always right exist? 😀 I mean, it's a miracle they're not crushed by sheer weight of knowledge and self-righteousness 😳 An engineering miracle 🙏🏽
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Last tweet from me:
A few days ago I got judgment from a matter I acted in (successfully) at the Supreme Court of Appeal.
Amusing for me because I acted against my former employer / research affiliation who was represented by my former university law lecturer 😅😅😅😅
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There is a hippo on the loose in Fourways? Guys it's 11 days into the new year. Can the country just calm down please.
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Last year, my 3 month no booze detox accidentally extended to 10 months. I am going to try that again this year. Apart from contributing to a 14kg weight-loss, it also really helped my mental health. With the way the pandemic is going, I guess every little bit helps!
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Personal/professional announcement:
I have today resigned from The Maisels Group of Advocates (effective 1 May 2020).
I will then take up practice at Group One Advocates.
Here's to new things in 2020!
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LAWYERS: Our profession is small, and Johannesburg is even smaller. If you are going to be rude or racist about someone in the company of others, please make sure their loyalty is to you and not the person you are gossiping about.
#ThisIsASubTweet
#YesItIsDeliberate
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This is Arvitha Doodnath, my former colleague at the
@HelenSuzmanFdn
. To say her death is senseless, numbing, and shocking, is a grotesque understatement. We live in a cruel, cruel world.
Gender activist and law lecturer shot dead in apparent hijacking attempt - reports
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Shout out to my mother who, when reading for her first Master's, made me her research assistant (age 9) so when I returned to (her) university as an undergraduate, I already knew where to find Hansard in the UKZN Howard College main library 😅
(This may explain a lot)
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Not commenting on the specifics but this is a remarkably direct, open, and frank interview given by the ANC Chief Whip (elect?). The era of coalitions *may* usher in a more accountable and responsive political class. We live and pray...
ANC’s Chief Whip Mdumiseni Ntuli tells
@TheRealClementM
that the party did not agree with partnership terms brought by EFF and MK Party.
“We met with MK Party twice and their first condition was that Ramaphosa should not be President.”
#GNU
#ANC
#EFF
#MKParty
#702WalkTheTalk
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What a career day.
First appearance in the Competition Appeal Court.
And my prospective pupil is having their pupillage interview today.
How is it that I have a prospective pupil!?!?!?
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Just popping in to say I am very happy to officially start as a Member of Group One Advocates. See my profile here:
(Standardised profile pic to follow after Covid-19 lockdown!)
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I LOVE seeing people - even legally qualified ones - who have never argued anything in Court literally judge some of the world's most preeminent lawyers as being shite.
Mate you've not even opposed a traffic fine let alone a full judicial review.
Calm down.
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I'm going to tweet some thoughts on the recent
#LLB
discussion precipitated by the CHE report. I wrote my Master's thesis on this when at .
@UniofOxford
so hopefully it helps.
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Coming here to say it's 7 years exactly that I signed the Book and joined the Johannesburg Society of Advocates. Also, here's why I don't tweet here often: (1/3)
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For a lawyer, staying in a place called Oudekraal is a bit traumatising, esp when one is supposed to be on holiday!
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Good morning.
Let's all refresh our knowledge on *checks notes* the Cab rank rule, the adversarial system, and the rule of law - lawyer and layperson alike.
Taken from Dzingirai and Others v S - Appeal (A81/2023) [2023] ZAFSHC 425; 2024 (1) SACR 327 (FB) (2 November 2023).
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Hello. Yes. I represent everyone. As an advocate, I am bound by the Cab Rank Rule. It means I represent anyone who can afford my fees and asks me to represent them in an area of work I am capable of acting in, provided I am not personally conflicted in the matter itself.
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One thing that impresses me about South Africans (much like most families I guess). We can take each other on and be quite vicious, but dare you fight us from the outside, then you gonna learn my friend!
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Ndlozi v Daily Sun and Others: hopefully, it adds something to the debate about the repetition rule.
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Apparently, South Africans "rejoiced in the streets the same way we did when Mandela was freed from prison" when the Sussexes got married. Offensive. Deluded. Vulgar.
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Today, I argued in the Palace of Justice. The irony of the name does not escape me: it was built at a time when my place would have only been in the dock and not the Bar. Don't tell me that South Africa, with its past, isn't a magical place.
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Can everyone on the Twittersphere also not collapse when your election analysis based on tweets turns out to bear no correlation to reality?
Please spare us your think pieces and nested tweet threads.
I thank you!
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HELLO TWITTER.
Next time you try and exploit a lawyer you know from social media by asking them for free legal advice please consider this...
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That's our classmate - and my friend 💃🏽
A former UKZNer, a former ward Cllr of us at 33 in eThekwini. Is she the next Mayor of eThekwini come tomorrow afternoon?
Let's tune in and see. Nicole Graham is her name.
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My grandmother had a massive stroke a few months ago and is largely immobile with virtually no speech.
Today, she and I spent our time laughing at her monosyllabic insults aimed at the rest of my family.
It's the small things.
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Go get vaccinated!
But please remember vaccines don't make us immune. So please continue to practice safety protocols!
#vaxxedgirlsummer
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Schroedinger's politics.
The ANC is the strongest liberation movement in the history of the world but being bullied into a GNU by the DA.
The DA is so Machiavellian it will reverse democracy but can't win elections on its own and so joins the GNU.
Yall, engage reality pls 🤭😅
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OMG I AM ALMOST INSIDE THE VENUE TO GET JABBED THIS IS LIKE ATTENDING A SECRET INFLUENCER PARTY
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I have no desire to become a Judge, ever. Not for any reason other than I believe both the profession and the Courts, and thus the public-at-large, are served by having a cadre of long-standing lawyers who have seen and done it all.
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As a gay man, I am very proud of Martin. He has been appointed as an MEC in KZN where the leader of the largest party there has got a bad record on LGBT rights. Sexuality should be no impediment to ascending the highest of heights. What matters is that you do your duty and serve.
I stand to be corrected but I also think
@meyermartinsa
is the first gay MEC in KZN, he has been a great champion for LGBTI rights in the province and I hope any queer young person worried about whether they have space in politics in this country sees that they do 🌈
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Today during an SCA hearing, my microphone somehow unmuted and I cut across my leader while discussing the case with a colleague (more specifically an answer to a Judge's question), only for my leader and one of the Judges to ask to switch off my microphone 😭😭😭😭😭
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I know it's an odd thing to tweet this right now as it's happening.
But let's be honest. We are sort of all treating this as a joke.
My grandmother- as far as we know- didn't die from
#COVID19
. But that's the point.
You don't have to have this disease to be affected by it.
My grandmother just died in the trauma unit of a private hospital while waiting for medical assistance. This is after searching for hours to find a bed.
#COVID19
is over-burdening our healthcare system. Our people are dying.
Do everything you can to save yourself and others.
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Today's a busy news day. My pupil for next year has been confirmed by
@JSAdvs
. Looking forward to working with
@SuhailMohammed_
as he comes to join me at Group One 💃🏽
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Please don't expect me to answer my own questions. These are the things paying clients ask me about. I'm just putting this out there so that LLB Twitter and journalist Twitter has a third day story to write about 🤭 Happy Sunday!
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The SCA wanted nothing to do with me for the first four and a bit years of my career. Now after meeting me for the first time a few weeks ago, I'm there three times this coming week. Pray for me 😅🙏🏽
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Lindiwe, don't bother. There was a whole piece today about how your argument was flawed because by 1994 the NP budget became more redistributive. Your tweets are wasted on people who make it seem like the NP decided one day to start caring for those they oppressed.
I note the gleeful attempts to discredit my family history as a means of straw-manning my argument. For the avoidance of doubt: my South African parents’ working lives began long before they moved to eSwatini & long before I was born.And continued long after they moved back home.
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After their long struggle for independent candidates,
@nation_movement
have finally prevailed.
Congratulations to them, our attorneys (Maphalla Motla Conradie), and my colleagues
@TembekaNgcukai1
SC and
@JasonMitchellSA
. A pleasure doing business with you!
Judgment in
@nation_movement
favour will send shockwaves through our political system & has potential to breathe new life into SA politics. Parliament would be forced to amend the Electoral Act & adopt a new electoral model that better aligns with our constitutional democracy🇿🇦
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This reminds me of the fact that both my mother's and father's families were forcibly removed from their homes (in Riverside and the CBD) in Durban to get dumped in an Indian designated area now known as Chatsworth, which we all now accept as home. Trauma pervades in so many ways
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Today would have been Bram Fischer's 110th birthday. A brilliant, principled, and powerful advocate, it was learning about him which made me choose a life in the law.
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Poignant for me today as I move into one of those former white enclave suburbs in Sandton. A nice reminder that my existence is a revolutionary act. But the struggle is not yet over ✊🏽
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Loving this new profile pic courtesy of
@SABCNews
live stream. Also ft
@MichaelBishop12
, Adiel, and the State Attorney instructing them both 😅🤭
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See evidence of dressing the same.
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Had the privilege of meeting and working with
#GeorgeBizos
. The saying goes never meet your heroes. I'm glad I never listened. What a remarkable man. May he rest in peace.
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Whilst I'm talking professional things, just so you know how my Saturday is going:
My Mother called me up to give me some tips on appellate advocacy. She is not a lawyer.
But given her qualifications are B.PEd, BA (Hons), MA, MBA, PhD, who am I to argue?
😅
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There I was laughing about Indian Matchmaking only to discover my Mother was approached to fix me an arranged marriage. To a woman 😭
Thankfully Dr B is smarter than that and quipped it's a pity the lady on the other side didn't have any sons 😅
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1. Are coalition agreements between parties legally enforceable?
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Earlier today, I had the privilege of arguing a case on behalf of two NGOs -
@OpenSecretsZA
and Unpaid Benefits Campaign - against one of my favourite Silks, Ngwako Maenetjie, SC - on behalf of the Minister of Finance.
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If people get voted out in by-elections, can we agree they get called bye-elections 😅😅😅😅😅
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I rarely tweet aggressively about an individual and less so a politician. But one thing I have no time for is that special kind of antiblack Indian racism that thrives in KZN (and elsewhere) and *that* family is one of its primary architects. Never forget.
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Not quite back at Chambers yet, but so looking forward to the challenges of the new year. I am particularly excited that I shall be taking on my very first pupil this year. Odd considering I was a pupil myself not very many years ago!
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You are welcome to reach out to me (have had a few requests for 2025). But, my next pupil should be a black (African) womxn. If I make a positive contribution to our profession, my skills should go where most support is needed (sadly, because of how untransformed the Bar can be).
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