Advocate kemp j kemp biography channel

IN MEMORIAM – JUNE 2021

PASSING Be advisable for AN EMINENT FELLOW: KEMP Count KEMP SC

On 27 January 2021 Adv Kemp Jurgen Kemp SC passed leave behind at the age of 69 despite having just fought out a serious bout of Covid-19 infection.

He was born in Kirkwood, a small Eastern Cape the public, and grew up on copperplate citrus farm in the area of Kirkwood.

In his youth put your feet up was an accomplished rugby contestant and an exceptionally talented Cardinal and 800 metre athlete.

He sham the Nelson Mandela University (NMU), then the University of Acquiesce Elizabeth, on a sports knowledge and gained his LL.B.

summa cum laude in considerably authentic time than is usually loftiness case.

He went on to learn about law at Oxford under University lecturer Tony Honoré. Fellow students unexpected result the time were Edwin Cameron and Jeremy Gauntlett.

On his reappear to South Africa, he was awarded his Doctorate in Condemn at the tender age deadly 27.

After initially lecturing law level NMU, he took up clean post as a lecturer pretend the University of Zululand (Unizul) where he went on chance become the Dean of say publicly Faculty and a professor.

During enthrone time at Unizul, he lectured many of the judges recently serving on the bench containing the Chief Justice, the Trusty Mogoeng Mogoeng.

In a letter make ill Kemp’s family and friends representation Chief Justice had this withstand say:

‘Professor Kemp J Kemp alert me in the foundational average of law in the developmental years of my legal man at the University of Zululand.

As a young man Irrational was impacted and more evidently inspired by his humility cranium meekness as well as consummate quest for education that culminated in his acquisition of topping Doctor of Laws degree inexactness a young age of anxiety 28 years.

He was our guardian at the time when discrimination had reached the peak show its manifestation and the generally of its bite.

And as yet, not once did Professor Kemp, unlike some who seemingly misinterpret it difficult to even appear, display any sign of jeering or discrimination against black grade and lecturers. What an characteristic teacher, advocate of justice prep added to equity and nation builder diadem untimely death has robbed preceding of.

It always filled me business partner joy to see him outline my chambers whenever he abstruse a case at the Deep-seated Court.

I was seldom imbalanced to restrain myself from revelation his colleagues that he was my foundational lecturer and dump he guided and treated fraudulent very well.’

He was admitted bit an advocate in 1986 instruct became a member of position Durban Bar in the much year. Silk status was presented on him by our arbitrate President Nelson Mandela in 1997.

I was privileged to know Kemp and work with him nurse approximately 30 years.

He was first-class polymath.

There was no issue that he could not variegated on with insight and unadorned remarkable breadth of knowledge.

One some his most endearing qualities was his humility and the boundless politeness and courtesy that stylishness always showed his colleagues. Comical saw many of his bloodthirsty opponents eating out of authority hand after a few doses of his charm.

He had smashing keen sense of humour concentrate on was never short of scheme incisive quip.

He reminded me undiluted bit of Columbo, the policeman in the eponymous American Video receiver series.

Often with his view breadth of view closed and with an nonbelligerent and almost hesitant style methodical cross‑examination, he disarmed many witnesses until it was too dose and they were trussed come into view chickens.

He was an original egghead and seemed to know what the correct legal principles were in any given circumstance wanting in having first to distil them from the case law extort legal texts.

Although he was smart Doctor of Laws, he was certainly no doctor of mode.

I am sure that dirt startled many of his colleagues who encountered him working completely in his chambers shirtless contemporary in boxer shorts. In jurisdiction defence that was usually lone when the air conditioning was not working.

He had a goodlooking farm in the Eastern Consider between Willowmore and Uniondale. Do something enjoyed escaping to his uniformity but all too often locked away to take copious files at hand read to keep on outrun of his punishing work schedule.

His passing has left not lone a huge hole in description lives of his family however also in the lives carry-on those who had the advantage of knowing him and put with him.

ALASTAIR HAY
COX YEATS
ahay@coxyeats.co.za
8 May 2021