Johann Christiaan Kriegler served as a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1995 to 2002, one of the eleven judges sworn in when the court's first bench was established, after a career at the Johannesburg bar and on the Transvaal Provincial Division and Appellate Division. He chaired South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission from 1993 and oversaw the country's first universal-suffrage elections in April 1994, later chairing the permanent Electoral Commission of South Africa until 1999. He was also the founding chairperson of Lawyers for Human Rights and later founded Freedom Under Law.
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RoleRetired South African judge 1 Nationality / Jurisdiction Classification
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Formerly a practising silk in Johannesburg, he joined the bench as a judge of the Transvaal Provincial Division in 1984.
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Johann Christiaan Kriegler is a retired South African judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from February 1995 to November 2002.
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Johann Christiaan Kriegler is a retired South African judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from February 1995 to November 2002.
Member Of: Constitutional Court of South Africa, Lead section
Johann Christiaan Kriegler (born 29 November 1932) is a retired South African judge who served in the Constitutional Court of South Africa from February 1995 to November 2002.
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is a retired South African judge who served in the Constitutional
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Wikidata Q6216073, P27 country of citizenship claim
P27 (country of citizenship): South Africa
Wikidata Q6216073, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1932
Wikidata Q6216073, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1932-11-29
Wikidata Q6216073, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Pretoria
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