Kate O'Regan
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The Honourable Kate O'Regan |
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Deputy Chief Justice of South Africa Acting |
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In office February 2008 – May 2008 |
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| Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa | |
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In office November 1994 – 11 October 2009 |
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| Nominated by | Judicial Service Commission |
| Appointed by | Nelson Mandela |
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| Born |
17 September 1957 Liverpool, England |
| Nationality | South African |
| Spouse(s) | Alec Freund |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater |
University of Cape Town University of Sydney London School of Economics |
Catherine "Kate" O'Regan (born 17 September 1957) is a former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. From 2013 to 2014 she was a commissioner of the Khayelitsha Commission and is now the inaugural director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford.
O'Regan was born in Liverpool, England, into a large Catholic family of Irish immigrants. She moved to Cape Town when she was seven. Her mother was a dentist from a "very political household"; her father was a doctor who became active in poor Catholic communities and those subjected to forced removals.
O'Regan studied at the University of Cape Town from 1975 to 1980, earning a BA and LLB. She was taught briefly by Arthur Chaskalson, who had recently founded the Legal Resources Centre, and ran UCT's legal aid project, working with Mahomed Navsa of the University of the Western Cape. After earning an LLM from the University of Sydney, she returned to South Africa and began her articles of clerkship at Bowman Gilfillan. She stayed on at Bowman for two years under John Brand, specialising in labour law and land rights and representing COSATU, NUM, NUMSA and the Black Sash.
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