Martin Luitingh

Martin Luitingh is a barrister at the Sydney Bar in Australia. He was a human rights advocate in South Africa. Advocate Luitingh was counsel for victims in the Harms Commission of Inquiry into Death Squads, representing among others, the deceased estate of Anton Lubowski and the murdered David Webster. He was the lead counsel in the Queenstown Six case, in which, on a re-trial, the sentences of the six accused were reduced from death to 60 months’ imprisonment, of which 40 months were suspended for five years. Luitingh was the lead counsel, assisted by Advocate Eric Dane and advocate Gys Rautenbach SC of the Johannesburg Bar, in the indictment of 18 South African Transport Services (SATS) employees accused of murdering co-workers who had crossed the picket line after a large-scale termination of employment by SATS. Before leaving for Australia, Luitingh gave evidence in the inquest into the death of David Webster, who was killed by a shotgun blast outside his home in Johannesburg. Apartheid hitman Ferdi Barnard was convicted and jailed for murdering Webster.