Dhaya Pillay

Dhayanithie Pillay (born 5 January 1958) is a South African judge of the Labour Court and KwaZulu-Natal High Court.

Early life Pillay was born in Durban in 1958 and completed her B.Proc at UNISA in 1982.

In the late 1980s, Pillay's practice moved towards labour law, in which she later became an expert, acquiring an LLM in the subject from the University of Natal in 1993. – in the racial spat over his appointment.

In July 2015 she was interviewed and shortlisted by the Judicial Service Commission for appointment to the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She was nominated by rights groups and former Constitutional Court judge Zak Yacoob and was praised by commentators.

Other positions and awards Pillay is an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria and has been a visiting academic at the University of Seattle, New York University, the University of Oxford and the Open University. She was recognised as a human rights defender by the Durban branch of Amnesty International in 2005.