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'''Lex Mpati''' [[Senior counsel|SC]] (born 5 September 1949) is a South African judge, Chancellor of [[Rhodes University]],<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.ru.ac.za/vice-chancellor/chancellor/news/justicempatitobeinstalledasthenewchancelloratrhodes.html|title=Justice Mpati to be installed as the new Chancellor at Rhodes|last=University|first=Rhodes|access-date=2018-01-11|language=en}}</ref> and former President of the [[Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.justice.gov.za/sca/judges_cv.html|title=SCA Judges' CV|website=www.justice.gov.za|access-date=2018-01-11}}</ref>
==Early life and education==
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Lex Mpati started his legal career in 1985 and was admitted as an [[Advocate]] in 1989. He became a member of the Eastern Cape [[Bar (law)|Bar]] in 1989 and was appointed as [[senior counsel]] in April 1996.<ref name=":1" /> He served as a [[Judge]] in the [[Eastern Cape]] [[High Courts of South Africa|High Court]] from 1997–2000. He was appointed as a [[Judge of Appeal]], first in an [[acting capacity]] and in December 2000 as a full member of the [[Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa|Supreme Court of Appeal]]. He ascended to Deputy President of the Supreme Court of Appeal in 2003, and to President in August 2008. He is also a member of the [[Judiciary of South Africa#Judicial Service Commission|Judicial Service Commission]].<ref name=":0" />
He attended Rhodes University as a student between 1979 and 1982, and subsequently returned to his alma mater as [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] in February 2013.<ref name=":2" />
==Other interests==
Mpati is known to have been a keen [[rugby union|rugby]] player and was a founding member of the South Eastern Districts Rugby Union. He has also served on committees of the [[South African Rugby Union]] and on the legal committee of [[SANZAR]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|date=2019|title=Tribute to Justice Lex Mpati|url= https://gcbsa.co.za/law-journals/2019/december/2019-december-vol032-no3-pp08-09.pdf|journal= Advocate|volume=32|issue=3|pages=8–9|via= General Council of the Bar of South Africa}}</ref>
==Honours and awards==
Mpati was awarded an honorary [[LLD]] from Rhodes University in 2004 and in 2011 the [[Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University]] also conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on him.<ref name=":3" />
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