Too hot to handle: Justice Albie Sachs, the legendary South African lawyer charged with helping to create the country's post-apartheid constitution, mesmerised delegates at the Minority Lawyer conference at the Law Society on Saturday.
However, technical problems with lighting - aka finding the on/off switch - threatened to disrupt his DVD presentation.
One bright spark covered a particularly powerful spotlight with a cloth - only for it to begin smouldering within minutes. Happily the cloth was swiftly removed so averting a fire, but Obiter suspects this wasn't quite the blazing performance organisers had in mind ...
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