Dave Holness is the Director of the Law Clinic of the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa and is a practising Attorney of the High Court of South Africa there. He has been its Director since 2008 and has worked in such legal aid clinic organisations since 2000. He holds from Rhodes University a B.A. (cum laude), L.L.B. (summa cum laude) and Post-Gad Diploma in Higher Education. From Nelson Mandela University he has an L.L.M. by thesis on the constitutional right to food in South Africa and an L.L.D. on developing a model for wider, improved and better coordinated free legal services/legal aid in South Africa in civil matters. Dave has published and lectured widely in South Africa and abroad mainly on topics related to socio-economic rights realisation and improving access to justice and has co-authored a series of undergraduate law textbooks since about 2007. Dave was previously the Head of Public Law in the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Law.
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