The Cape Bar is dedicated to promoting access to justice for all, ensuring that its members render the highest standard of legal services and changing the composition of its membership so as to be representative of South African society, and to that end, encourages fair and equitable briefing patterns.

For more information, please see the Cape Bar's Mission Statement, Model Policy on Fair and Equitable Briefing Patterns, Pupillage Selection Policy and Pupillage Selection Manual.

In a judgment delivered on 30 September 2011, the Western Cape High Court (Koen et Mokgohloa JJ) granted the CBC's application. The judgment is available here, and all of the papers are available here.