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The Legal Resources Centre (LRC) is a human rights organisation based in South Africa with offices in Johannesburg (including a Constitutional Litigation Unit), Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown. It was founded in 1979 by a group of prominent South African lawyers, including Arthur Chaskalson and Felicia Kentridge, and American lawyer Jack Greenberg. The LRC employs over 65 lawyers specialising in public-interest law.

The LRC is in partnership with Canon Collins Educational & Legal Assistance Trust, who provide support for the LRC in its work in the field of human rights.

Notable alumni

  • George Bizos, human rights advocate
  • Geoff Budlender
  • Arthur Chaskalson, former Chief Justice and Constitutional Court judge
  • John Hlophe, Judge President of the Western Cape Division of the High Court
  • Felicia Kentridge, human rights advocate and wife of leading anti-apartheid lawyer Sydney Kentridge
  • Johann Kriegler, former Constitutional Court judge
  • Bongani Christopher Majola, former Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • Dunstan Mlambo, Judge President of the Gauteng Division of the High Court
  • Sandile Ngcobo, Chief Justice and Constitutional Court judge
  • Chris Nicholson, judge in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Division of the High Court

    • References

    Legal Resources Centre Wikipedia
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