South African judges have no power of judicial review; they simply apply the laws that Parliament concocts.

Finally, a South African judge ruled that the ship could not dock as planned.

Lately, however, African judges and lawmakers have left the company on the defensive here, an area that has long been a smoker's paradise.

Richard Joseph Goldstone (born 26 October 1938) is a South African former judge.

He noted in 1992 that most South African judges "applied such [apartheid] laws without commenting upon their moral turpitude."

Hoyt was the second African American federal judge in the state of Texas.

Reeves is the second African American federal judge from Mississippi.

She is the Fourth Circuit's first female African American judge.

Richard Goldstone, the South African judge who is the chief prosecutor at the tribunal, appears unruffled by these problems.

Pratt is the first African American federal judge in Indiana's history.