In homage to a single work of art that has emerged to brand the hearts of all South Africans, a blue dress hangs in the halls of the courts to remind us what one person did do to inspire a country. While her story cannot be fully known, let a lady in a blue dress both horrify and beguile you. This is that storyIn 2003, Judith J. Tomsic, Esq. was the first California delegate in Judicial Law to South Africa's Constitutional Court post apartheid. Accompanying State and Federal judges from all over the U.S., Ms. Tomsic met in chambers with South Africa's judges at several court levels.
Her discussions unveiled the role of violence in holding a society captive. It remains a struggle to move overburdening caseloads efficiently and fairly. To do so can be the diffference between the success and failure of any transitional democracy. Each culture presents it's own challenges Here, in the pages of this story, is one such shocking challenge of reality to the rule of law
