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Allan Robin Winston Hancox (1932 – 1 January 2013) was a
Chief Justice of Kenya The Chief Justice of Kenya is the head of the Judiciary of Kenya and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya and is an office established under Article 161 of the Kenyan Constitution. The Chief Justice is assisted by the Deputy Chief Justice w ...
. 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 barrister and 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 Suprem ...
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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
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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 was the country's longest-serving president. Moi previously served as the third vice ...
appointed Justice Hancox as the only member of a Commission Inquiring into the Insurance Industry.


Retirement and death

He retired to live in
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and became Assistant Magistrate for ten years. He died aged 80 years at the
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hospital in the town of
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See also

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Chief Justice of Kenya The Chief Justice of Kenya is the head of the Judiciary of Kenya and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya and is an office established under Article 161 of the Kenyan Constitution. The Chief Justice is assisted by the Deputy Chief Justice w ...
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Court of Appeal of Kenya The Court of Appeal of Kenya is established under Article 164 of the constitution of Kenya and consists of a number of judges, being not fewer than twelve. The court handles appeals arising over the decisions of the High Court of Kenya, the ...
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High Court of Kenya The High Court of Kenya is a court of unlimited original jurisdiction in criminal and civil matters established under article 165 of the constitution of Kenya The Constitution of Kenya is the supreme lawof the Republic of Kenya. There have b ...


References

1932 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Kenyan judges British emigrants to Kenya Kenyan expatriates in Nigeria Chief justices of Kenya {{law-bio-stub