Anybody sitting on a high court in any land must feel the pressures of the threatening and disturbing events of our times. It would be odd if each one of us were not sensitive to these realities as a judge, as a human being, and as a person.
Yet we live in a period where I have felt myself proud not only to be a judge in South Africa, with its exceptional Constitution, but to belong to a world-wide community of judges who believe that basic rights and freedom matter.
