Piet Streicher


Pieter Emilius Streicher is a South African lawyer and retired Judge of Appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeal. He graduated with an LL.B. from the University of Pretoria in 1969 and was appointed a judge in the Transvaal Provincial Division in 1989.

Education

Streicher matriculated at the Hoërskool Lydenburg in 1961, after which he enrolled at the University of Pretoria and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1965 before studying law and being awarded a LL.B. from the university in 1969.

Biography

Streicher was admitted as an attorney in 1969 and as an advocate of the Supreme Court in 1972. He served as a member of the Johannesburg Bar Council for two years before being awarded silk in 1986.
A senior judge in the Commercial Court from 1995 to 1996, he was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal in 1997, a position he held until his retirement in 2010. Streicher currently practices as an arbitrator in a number of commercial and construction first instance and appeal arbitrations.