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 14 September 2012, the Supreme Court of Appeal (Brand, Cloete, Snyders, Mhlantla et Petse JJA) dismissed the JSC's appeal. The judgment is available here, and all of the papers in the original application are available here.