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UFS handed a cum laude award to Judge
2006-06-24
The Faculty of Law at the University of the Free State (UFS) handed a cum laude award to Judge Joos Hefer for being the first judge in the history of the South African Academy for Science and Arts who received the Toon van den Heever prize for the science of law. Judge Hefer is also the first former lecturer and alumnus of the Faculty to receive this prestigious prize.
Prof Johan Henning (Dean: Faculty of Law at the UFS) during the handing over of the cum laude award to Judge Hefer.