Allan Robin Winston Hancox,
CBE
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(1932 – 1 January 2013) was a
Chief Justice of Kenya
The chief justice of Kenya is a public office in the Republic of Kenya established under Article 161 of the country's Constitution as the head of the Judiciary of Kenya. Under Article 163, the chief justice also serves as the president of the S ...
. He served between 1989 and 1993, and was succeeded by
Fred Kwasi Apaloo
Frederick Kwasi Apaloo (9 January 1921 – 2 April 2000) was a Ghanaian judge who served as Chief Justice of Kenya from 1993 to 1995 and Chief Justice of Ghana from 1977 to 1986. He is the only judge to have served on the Supreme Court of Gha ...
.
Early career
Born and educated in England, Justice Hancox first joined the judiciary as a magistrate in Kenya Colony in 1957. He subsequently worked in
Nigeria
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, before returning to Kenya in 1963 as a senior resident magistrate. In 1969, he was appointed a
High Court Judge.
Hancox Commission
In 1986, the then President
Daniel arap Moi
Daniel Toroitich arap Moi ( ; 2 September 1924 – 4 February 2020) was a Kenyan politician who served as the second president of Kenya from 1978 to 2002. He is the country's longest-serving president to date. Moi previously served as the thi ...
appointed Justice Hancox as the only member of a
Commission Inquiring into the Insurance Industry.
Honour
He was conferred a C.B.E. in the
1994 New Year Honours
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List.
Retirement and death
He retired to live in
Guernsey
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and became Assistant Magistrate for ten years.
He died aged 80 years at the
Aga Khan
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hospital in the town of
Kisumu
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.
See also
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Chief Justice of Kenya
The chief justice of Kenya is a public office in the Republic of Kenya established under Article 161 of the country's Constitution as the head of the Judiciary of Kenya. Under Article 163, the chief justice also serves as the president of the S ...
*
Court of Appeal of Kenya
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Courts gene ...
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High Court of Kenya
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References
1932 births
2013 deaths
20th-century Kenyan judges
British emigrants to British Kenya
Kenyan expatriates in Nigeria
Chief justices of Kenya
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
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