Welcome to the first issue of the SA Lawyer, which is a supplement of De Rebus. This supplement, alike the De Rebus, is a publication that belongs to legal practitioners and will be filled with content that is of importance to the legal profession. In this inaugural issue we have compiled several newsworthy articles on events that took place in the past few months. We hope you enjoy reading the publication.

The supplement will be published quarterly and we call out to all legal practitioners to submit articles and information on events that are of importance to the profession. Added to that, we call out to all practitioners to notify us on any events that should be featured in the supplement.

Here are the upcoming events for the rest of 2022 and the beginning of 2023:

• Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA): Webinar with the Prime Minister of the Bahamas. Topic: ‘What Lawyers need to know about responding to the climate crisis: is it possible to be effective especially in relation to the most vulnerable?’ 15 September 2022.
• International Bar Association (IBA) Annual Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center from 30 October – 4 November 2022.
• IBA: The Revised 2020 IBA Rules of Evidence and its Commentary: Compliance with an Order to Produce an Adverse Inference. Part three of a three-part webinar series presented by the IBA Asia Pacific Arbitration Group (APAG) and supported by the IBA Arbitration Committee and the IBA Asia Pacific Regional Forum. 29 November 2022, 08:30-10:00 GMT
• 23rd Commonwealth Law Conference, Goa, India. ‘Commonwealth Lawyers – common challenges in uncommon times.’ The conference will run from 5 to 9 March 2023.
• For all course from the Law Society of South Africa’s Legal Education and Development Division, visit www.LSSALEAD.org.za.

This article was first published in SA Lawyer in 2022 (September) DR 1.