| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Fritz Brand | |
| Honorific-Suffix: | SC |
| Office: | Acting Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa |
| Term Start: | 2010 |
| Term End: | 2010 |
| Office2: | Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal |
| Term Start2: | 2001 |
| Term End2: | 2015 |
| Office3: | Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Cape Provincial Division |
| Term Start3: | 1992 |
| Term End3: | 2001 |
| Birthname: | Frederik Daniël Jacobus Brand |
| Birth Date: | 1949 2, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Paarl, South Africa |
| Alma Mater: | Stellenbosch University |
| Profession: | Advocate |
Frederik Daniël Jacobus "Fritz" Brand SC (born 16 February 1949) is a former judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa.[1]
Brand was born in Paarl and matriculated at the High School Vredenburg in 1966. After school he enrolled at Stellenbosch University and obtained a BA degree in 1970, an LL.B. degree in 1972 and an LL.M. (cum laude) in 1976.[2]
Brand started his career in 1973 as a Senior lecturer at Stellenbosch University and was admitted as advocate in May 1973. He lectured until 1976 and on 10 May 1977 joined the Cape Bar. Brand was granted senior status in November 1989 and in September 1992 he was appointed Judge of the Cape High Court.
He was appointed to the bench of the Supreme Court of Appeal with effect from 1 December 2001. In 2010 he was appointed as an acting judge to the Constitutional Court, for two terms.[3]
Notable judgments written by Brand include Afrox Healthcare v Strydom, Fourway Haulage SA v SA National Roads Agency, and Butters v Mncora. While acting in the Constitutional Court, he wrote for the majority in Le Roux v Dey, and his Supreme Court judgment in RH v DE, which derogated the third-party delictual claim for adultery, was upheld by the Constitutional Court in DE v RH.
He is an international commercial court judge for the Qatar International Court.[4]