[2] He matriculated at the Caledon Public School, after which he studied law at the University of Stellenbosch, and graduated with distinction.
[1] Beyers started in 1928 as a senior lecturer in Roman-Dutch law at Stellenbosch University and in 1936 he decided to give up an academic career and joined the Cape Bar.
He was leading counsel for the government in the constitutional cases concerning the validity of the Separate Representation of Voters Act in 1952 and 1953.
[1] In 1966, Beyers presided over the trial of Dimitri Tsafendas, after the assassination of the Prime Minister, H. F. Verwoerd, in the House of Assembly in Cape Town.
He found that Tsafendas was mentally unfit to stand trial and ruled that he should be confined for life as a ward of the State.