Our Guest speaker for this event is Karrisha Pillay SC

Karrisha has been practising as an advocate at the Cape Bar for the past 22 years. She undertakes work in a range of areas and has a particular interest in constitutional law, administrative law and regulatory work. She has appeared as counsel in a number of ground-breaking judgments in several divisions of the High Courts, the Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court. She took silk in 2019. She has also served as an Acting Judge in the Cape High Court.
Prior to embarking on practice, Karrisha worked as a Researcher at the Community Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape. Karrisha has written on the subjects of socio-economic rights, as well as the roles and responsibilities of various organs of State in our constitutional democracy. She has also co-edited a book entitled: Socio-Economic Rights in South Africa.

Karrisha has previously served on the Boards of several Non-Governmental Organisations and Community Based Organisations. She has also served on the Legal Practice Council for the Western Cape for the period 2019 to 2022 and has served intermittently, over a period of several years, on the Cape Bar Council, including as vice chairperson in 2019/2020.
Karrisha holds the following degrees: BA (law), LLB & LLM.