Judge Nigel Willis

Nigel’s sermons up to and including October 2024 have been published in a book, Lift Up Your Voice.

This anthology of the sermons has been put together to celebrate and mark the 120th anniversary of the founding of St George’s Anglican Church, Parktown, Johannesburg in October 2024. It is also the tenth anniversary of Nigel’s preaching from the pulpit. A retired judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal, he is an ordained, non-stipendiary minister in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. He is an assistant priest at St George’s. 

This book may be ordered directly from the publisher at R375 per copy from: 

This publication has been generously sponsored by Nicky and Strilli Oppenheimer. The author will not receive any royalty or other payment from sales of the book. Instead, when placing their orders, purchasers may specify from a designated list to which non-profit organisation the proceeds from any individual item should be allocated. A large proportion of the sale of each book, being not less than R200 per copy, will be donated to the organisations so selected. The process will be audited. 

The following will benefit accordingly:

The Anglican Diocese of Johannesburg

Hilton College Endowment Foundation Trust

The Order of St John, Johannesburg

The Parish of St George’s Church, Parktown, Johannesburg

The Rand Club (Library Committee Fund)

Tuli Conservation Trust

Nigel’s sermons delivered from November 2024 onwards are published on this website.

Monographs

1981. Banking in South African Law. Cape Town: Juta & Company

2013 The Pentecostal Movement, its Challenges and Potential,

published by Peter Lang, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,

Frankfurt am Main, Germany as part of its International Theology series.

Published Articles

1982. “Factoring Agreements” In the South African Law Journal, Cape Town: Juta & Company, p667.

2000. “Mystery of the Dictator, a Review of Hitler: 1936-45 by Ian Kershaw (the Penguin Press)”. In The Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 November, 2000.

2001. “The Gene Genies, a Review of The Madness of Adam and Eve: How Schizophrenia Shaped Humanity by David Horrobin (Bantam Press)”. In The Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22 June, 2001.

2002. “Is A Career in Law for You?”. In The Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa, 4 October, 2002.

2003. “Single Tax could Unlock Growth”. In The Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 September, 2003.

2006. “The Judiciary, Exploring Ways out of the Impasse”. In Business Day, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 February, 2006.

2006. “Judicial Independence, Guard the Future and Our Freedoms”. In Business Day, Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 March, 2006.

2007. “Sins of the Fathers, What Turns Boys into Misfits”. In Business Day, Johannesburg, South Africa, 27 December, 2007.

2008. “A Kinder, Gentler America”. In The Weekender, Johannesburg, South Africa, 13 September, 2008.

2010. “When we Reach for the Extraordinary”. In The Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa, 30 May, 2010.

2011. “The Times They are A-changing and the Judiciary Must Keep Up”. In The Mail & Guardian, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1 July 2011.

2015 “Spare the furnace and sell Rhodes off to De Beers”, The Sunday Times, 29 March 2015.

2016 “Enigmatic Jan Smuts Elusive in New Biography”, The Mail & Guardian, 5 February 2016.

2016 “Why a prosperous & stable Europe is so important to SA”, The Sunday Times, 3 July 2016

2017 “Darwin’s Hunch, Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins” The Mail & Guardian 25 August 2017.

Published Judgments

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