[2][3] After matriculating at the Durban Indian Girls' High School in 1972,[4] she attended the University of Durban-Westville, where she completed a BA in 1975.
[5] After serving her articles of clerkship at Dullah Omar's law firm,[2] Meer was admitted as an attorney in 1983.
[6] In November 2002, President Thabo Mbeki announced that he would additionally appoint Meer as a judge of the Western Cape Division of the High Court of South Africa.
[4] One of her judgments in the High Court, on transparency in political party funding, was upheld by the Constitutional Court of South Africa in My Vote Counts v Minister of Justice and Correctional Services.
[9] On two later occasions, in 2009 and 2021, she was nominated but withdrew from contention before the Judicial Service Commission held its hearings.