The role of general counsel in promoting the rule of law in Africa will take centre stage next week as one of Africa’s pre-eminent constitutional judges joins top GCs at Legal Week’s Corporate Counsel Forum Africa.

Justice Johann Kriegler, who oversaw South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994 before being appointed to the newly formed constitutional court, will deliver the keynote address at the forum, which takes place at The Wanderers Club in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 15 October.