In this video, Justice Albert 'Albie' Louis Sachs, one of the founding members of South Africa's Constitutional Court, calls on African business lawyers to uphold the rule of law and good governance while acting on behalf of their clients.

Justice Sachs, who was a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner before South Africa's first multiracial elections in 1994, was the recipient of the Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa (CLASA) Lifetime Achievement Award at the inaugural African Legal Awards on 24 October.

The video was recorded at Harvard Law School, where Justice Sachs was lecturing at the time of the awards.

He called on African business lawyers to follow a code of "honesty, integrity and fairness", adding: "South African lawyers can provide something to the continent that goes well beyond expertise – an ethic."

Justice Sachs spent long periods of his life in exile. In 1988, while working as a law professor in Maputo, Mozambique, he last an arm and his sight in one eye in a car bomb attack by members of the South African security forces.

While in exile he helped draft the ANC's code of conduct. He was also involved in the negotiations that led to the end of the apartheid regime.